“…Such programs are also related to the social equation, since "in the opportunities for access to Higher Education, the result of direct or indirect selection that, throughout schooling, weighs with unequal severity on the subjects of different social classes" (Bourdieu, 2003, p. 41). We must also acknowledge that Brazil is permeated by the racial democracy myth (Daflon, Feres Junior & Campos, 2013;Silva, Casa Nova & Carter, 2016), thus affirmative action programs are also a way of is a way to repair the historic debt arising from colonial Brazil's slavery (Santos, Cavalleiro, Barbosa & Ribeiro, 2008).…”