ABSTRACT
This article has an interpretative nature and aims to discuss the academic literacies in the context of affirmative action policies to expand the access to higher education in Brazil. For such, an overview encompassing the ideological and the autonomous models of literacies and about literacies and culture, focusing on black and indigenous populations was conducted. Following, conceptual issues regarding academic literacies were addressed based on the studies of Lea and Street (1998LEA, M.; STREET, B. Student writing in higher education: an academic literacies approach. Studies in Higher Education, v. 23, n. 2, jun., p. 157-173, 1998. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079812331380364.
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, 2014LEA, M.; STREET, B. O modelo de “letramentos acadêmicos”: teoria e aplicações. Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, São Paulo, v. 16, n. 2, jul./dez., p. 477-493, 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v16i2p477-493. Disponível em: <Disponível em: https://bit.ly/2QQqsKL
>. Acesso em: 17 nov. 2017.
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), as well as the notion of the institutional practice of mystery, discussed by Lillis (1999LILLIS, T. “Whose Common Sense”? Essayist literacy and the institutional practice of mystery. In: JONES, C.; TURNER, J.; STREET, B. V. (Org.). Students writing in the university: cultural and epistemological issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 127-140, 1999. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.8.13lil
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) and Lillis and Scott (2007LILLIS, T.; SCOTT, M. Defining academic literacies research: issues of epistemology, ideology and strategy. Journal of Applied Linguistics, v. 4, p. 5-32, 2007. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.v4i1.5. Disponível em: <Disponível em: https://bit.ly/2VVhAr2
>. Acesso em: 1 dez. 2017.
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). Two fragments of opinion articles published prior to Federal Law 12.711/2012 in Boletim, an academic journal of UFMG, were used in this article as a means to correlate the discourse about meritocracy used against racial quotas, affirmative action policies and academic literacies studies.
KEYWORDS:
literacy; academic literacies; racial quotas; public university