Author(s)

Jocélio Teles dos Santos¹, Delcele Mascarenhas Queiroz²

¹The Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Bahia, UFBA, Salvador, Brazil.
²The Department of Education, State University of Bahia, UNEB, Salvador, Brazil.

Over the last decade various public federal and state universities in Brazil created different forms of affirmative action, called a “quota system”, which were directed towards groups and populations underrepresented in the public universities: black, brown and indigenous students. This article examines, as a case study, the Federal University of Bahia, in the period from 2004-2012, analyzing the variables of race, color/ethnicity, school background and income of those students who enrolled in the university during the initial period of the quota system. The purpose is to evaluate the impact of the new system in a traditional institution through the use of quantitative data.

Affirmative Action, Brazil, Federal University of Bahia, Blacks, Higher Education

Santos, J. and Queiroz, D. (2016) The Impact of the “Quota System” in the Federal University of Bahia (2004-2012). Creative Education, 7, 2678-2695. doi: 10.4236/ce.2016.717251.