Abstract
Based on a master's research featuring the Ethnic-racial Self-declaration Assessment Committee of Bahia Federal University (UFBA), this paper aims to ponder over the white fraud in the racial quota system, which fabricates a mixed-black body in the context of racial heteroidentification. Such corporal fabrication, carried out through aesthetic manipulation, is comprehended within the miscegenation dispositive and defined as a set of corporal-discursive techniques materially complementary to racial democracy discourse. Two other phenomena intersect this question: the increasing number of black people in Brazil and the widening of affirmative actions targeting such group. As more people identify themselves as black, the access demand to quota system gets bigger. Thus, the white fraud issue is being addressed, in this paper, in parallel of those usually referred to as “light-skinned black” or “pardo (mixed)”: are the people who became black the same ones who fabricate a mixed-black body to have access to quota?
Keywords:
fraud; miscegenation; light-skinned black people; affirmative actions