Abstract

This article addresses an important aspect of the current debate about affirmative action that remains invisible to many of its participants: despite the traditional representation of legal discourse as an expression of the operation of rational and universal parameters, it can actually function as an ideological devise that seeks to reproduce processes of domination that, although formulated as manifestations of the common good, advance the interests of hegemonic groups through the association between abstract legal principles and particular cultural narratives.

Keywords:
law; narrative; ideology