Undergraduate Student-Convention Program - PEC-G: What African students tell us about Rio de Janeiro's public universities
PEC-G; African students; genre; breed ; black women
This work focuses on the use of students from other countries of the African country linked to the Student Program - Graduation Agreement – PECG. Wanting to deepen the knowledge on racial issues. In this work, we approach on the treatment that these students receive and looks how institutional racism works in the universities of Rio de Janeiro, and how they are welcomed and prepared for the program to receive them. Our goal here is to identify how gender and race operate in the educational and educational path of African students benefiting from the PEC-G Program. It uses research methodology or “bola de neve” or snowball. Through the semi-open questionnaire, with black African women in Brazilian territory, in public universities in Rio de Janeiro and still linked to the PEC-G program. The research paper presents a brief historical overview of the PEC-G, the implementation in the country and the growing number of foreign students. The number of students the growing number of foreign students linked to this program in public universities in recent years and how structural racism affects these students. How their lives are affected on a daily basis by actions based on racial issues how these actions interfere with academic and social life. His speeches throughout the research show us that the university is a reflection of social and racial problems.