The university with open doors

This chapter analyses the transformations and creative disruptions in Brazilian higher education in the light of contemporary disputes around interculturality and inclusion policies. In recent decades, public policies such as the Quotas Law have brought about significant changes in the student profile of Brazilian public universities. Although these advances have increased access for historically marginalised groups, such as Black, Indigenous, and low-income students, there are still structural challenges related to permanence, quality of training and integration into the labour market. Based on a selective literature review and critical theoretical reflection, this chapter proposes understanding interculturality not as a technical or consensual process, but as a field of dispute crossed by power relations. The analysis suggests that the debate on interculturality in Brazilian universities can only be understood from a critical Latin American perspective, which articulates symbolic struggles with material disputes, revealing both the limits and the potential of current inclusion policies.