Negro (auto) biográfico; cotas, real imaginário simbólico: cotistas na UFSM

Abstract

Nowadays, talking about quotes per passes our knowledge of Real Imaginary even more if we are discussing black quota holders students at UFSM. Thus, in a process of master’s dissertation research about black students who have entered in the Federal University of Santa Maria through the quotas system, articulated in the line of research School Practices and Public Politics at the Center of Education at UFSM, I aimed to raise (auto) biographical narratives of quota holder undergraduate students; narrating their life paths and life histories into a process of accessing, staying and graduating. It aimed to investigate their propositions face to public policies, affirmative and ethnic-racial questions in the graduation courses at UFSM. The quotes and the relation between the Real Symbolic Imaginary (Lacan's infernal triad) to the constitution of a Black subject in the academic context. Since I understood that there is no way of facing challenges without looking directly to the question who guides the journey. This qualitative descriptive research used a case study approach that was guided by oral stories of black people, because, beyond black people issues, it is necessary to understand how this constitutive process is articulated for each subject and its paths inside an academic context with quotas. I seek in the quota holder students the constructing and meaning him/herself in each saying, in an attempt of seeing the participants’ perspectives, i.e., the way they face the questions who are being focused. According to Thompson (1992), the oral story refers to individual lives and all of them are interesting and should be registered. Queiroz (1991) explains that the register is from something not preserved into a writing document and that can disappear if it is not conserved. For Lacan (1995), we have essential records in the reality that we named Real Symbolic Imaginary and confronting and meaning them will bring a dimension of singular experiences of each subject. Cunha (2016) states that we only make ourselves humans in the course of our life, in our social relations. Delory-Momberger (2006) highlights that the life story in a prospective dynamics, which connects past, present, and future of the subject and aims to emerge his/her personal project. The theoretical framework was based on authors that were sewing this patchwork quilt. I aimed to narrate, signify and denaturalize discourses that occurred through this research journey in each interview, in each glance and in each unsaid. It was dwelling on this theme that I aimed to resignify the trajectory of black quota holder students and their discourses about accessing, staying and graduating.