ABSTRACT
In this text, we dedicate to the guiding principles of hetero-identification commissions in competition for places reserved for black people in public Higher Education institutions. Differentiating the concepts of ‘self-identification’ and ‘self-declaration,’ based on the idea of structural racism, we analyzed the possibility of invalidating racial self-declarations by those commissions. Based on anti-discrimination law, we will compare the accumulated experience of heteroidentification commissions in the racial context and the challenges that already arise in the implementation of affirmative action policies in the context of gender identity. We conclude that the result of the hetero-identification commissions does not invalidate racial self-identifications, but only racial self-declarations, being a form of social control of the public policy of affirmative action in higher education.
Keywords
Self-identification; Self-declaration; Hetero-identification commission; Racial literacy; Gender identity