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MATO, Daniel. Racism, human rights and higher education in Latin America. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.65, pp.630-652.  Epub 27-Jul-2020. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.20.065.ds06.

This paper highlights the historical structural character of racism in Latin American societies and how its “naturalization” affects the possibilities of individuals and communities of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of fully exercising their right to education, with special attention to higher education. The analysis emphasizes that this problem does not only affect the quality of higher education, but also the effective exercise of human rights established in international regulations on the subject and which are part of the national constitutions and laws of the countries of the region and that States have the duty to ensure them. The paper also points out that the incidence of this problem was recognized by the 3rd. Regional Conference on Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CRES 2018), whose final declaration included recommendations on the role that higher education institutions should play in eradicating racism in their communities and in society in general. In order to contribute to the implementation of these recommendations, it is proposed to contextualize the idea of ​​“structural racism” and to disaggregate it, differentiating between the structural factors themselves, some specific to the respective higher education systems, named systemic, other characteristics of each Higher Education Institute in particular, which are named institutional and, finally, some characteristics of people who study or work in these institutions, named subjective.

Palabras clave : Higher Education; Human Rights; Teaching; Racism; Latin America.

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