Submitted by Aline Santiago da Silva Santos (aline.santos@fgv.br) on 2010-07-06T12:21:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CPDOC2010MarilenedePaula.pdf: 1073512 bytes, checksum: 34d1ff79c7104a16a3db369cea3d6862 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suemi Higuchi(suemi.higuchi@fgv.br) on 2010-07-16T19:19:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 CPDOC2010MarilenedePaula.pdf: 1073512 bytes, checksum: 34d1ff79c7104a16a3db369cea3d6862 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-07-19T12:34:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CPDOC2010MarilenedePaula.pdf: 1073512 bytes, checksum: 34d1ff79c7104a16a3db369cea3d6862 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-08 / This work’s intention is to show through the analysis of the political configuration on racial relations in Brazil in the late 1990’s and beggining of this century that a new and specific field of public policies has been launched: the promotion of racial equality. In order to achieve this goal, I examine the creation and the development of several affirmative action programs started under Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s governorship (1995-2002), which were spread through many Ministries, such as Justice, Agricultural Development, Education, Foreign Affairs, Work and also in the higher Brazilian court, Supremo Tribunal Federal, so that we have the chance to understand the meaning and the effects of those policies and also of the official speech that helped to increase the debate on racial relations in our country. / O presente trabalho busca, através da análise da conjuntura política das relações raciais no Brasil no final dos anos 1990 e início dos anos 2000, apontar para o surgimento de um campo específico das políticas públicas: a promoção da igualdade racial. Para obter tal finalidade analiso a trajetória das políticas de ação afirmativa do governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002), desenvolvidas em vários Ministérios, tais como Justiça, Desenvolvimento Agrário, Educação, Relações Exteriores e Trabalho e também no Supremo Tribunal Federal para determinar qual a contribuição e significado de tais políticas e do discurso político-simbólico desse governo para o avanço do debate sobre as relações raciais no Brasil.