Trajetórias exíguas: a história da universidade no Brasil e a exclusão das camadas populares

Abstract

The article discusses the results of a research that sought to explain the trajectory of higher education institutions in Brazil, focusing on inequalities historically accumulated and their consequences for the access and permanence of people belonging to groups socially excluded from academia. The rationale theory was made through bibliographical research and analysis of studies that address the aforementioned themes. The study made it possible to understand and draw a panorama capable of highlight how the higher education institution in Brazil was created from a predominantly hegemonic agenda that exercises the function of preserving spaces academics for the white bourgeois elite. The fact that Affirmative Actions, like quotas, having been implemented slowly and facing stiff resistance is proof that the Brazilian society perpetuates segregating precepts introjected since its origin, therefore making the trajectory of studies of people from the popular.