POLÍTICAS DE IGUALDADE RACIAL: POSSIBILIDADES E LIMITES PARA SUA EFETIVAÇÃO EM NÍVEL LOCAL – O CASO DE PORTO ALEGRE

Resumen

This paper aims to expose the production framework and implementation of racial equality policies at the local level. Analyzing the specific case of the city of Porto Alegre and the municipal body responsible for implementation of these policies - the Assistant Secretary of the Black People - we seek to adduce the institutional mechanisms used for such a process, and the relationship of civil society, via black movements, with the municipal management structures responsible for the development of such policies. The idea that guides this work is to present the social and political conditions that allow or not the implementation of public policies directed to certain social groups, defined as minority. Listing the disputes over management of this process, the paper seeks to show to what extent the black movement has articulated at the local level to manage racial equality policies. Despite the incursion of disadvantaged social groups in formal party politics is questionable inserting their demands and effective implementation of public policies that address the need to set to minority social groups. A structural approach could allow reflection on what is the place of racial equality policies in public management. Especially at the local level, in which the actions of the general managers are premised on offering services and resources that give visibility to the quality of public administration.