The objective of this research was to understand and analyze the personal comprehension of the trajectory of university students who have accessed places in UERJ benefited from affirmative action, type quotas, and that get graduated. By choosing a qualitative approach, were applied 16 individual semi-structured interviews in the following graduate courses: Law, Education, Social Services, Dentistry, Social Sciences, Sciences, History, Literature, Psychology and Mathematics. It articulated a study of the reflexive-analytical literature: the affirmative action policies and their theoretical debate, set against a background of cultural recognition of the main characters of the movements of the formation of black experience of affirmative action (Fraser, 2007, 2001; Frankenberger , 1993, 2004), the current state of affirmative action policies in Brazil (Guimarães, 2002, 2011; Gomes, 2003), the issue of racial inequality in the country, evidenced especially by the low presence of blacks in higher education (Munanga, 1986 , 2010; Carvalho, 2002, 2005), the presence of poor and black subjects in higher education, especially those who had accessed the university through affirmative action and the ways that drew up their graduations (Teixeira, 2003; Zago, 2006) and simultaneously conducting a field survey (Candau, 2005, 2003, Valentine, 2005, Lopes & Braga, 2007). As Goffman (2008), it was noted that the quota students are not recognized as belonging to the same social category as the normal students, their identities are spoiled and diminished, being discredited along the way at the college, suffering from a stigma. The attribute that they would miss, essential to common student identity: the merit, thought of as a neutral category, objective, universal or natural, devoid of power games and social disputes. Those who can hide this brand are discreditable. However, the condition of quota holder may come to light, a situation that changes the position of discreditable to discredited. Those who can not or do not want to hide the mark of quota holders are discredited. Blacks are discredited. The existing institutional racism in the university student association is responsible for black students equal to quota holder, so that after the implement affirmative action, which reaches different subjects, black students have been immediately identified as quota students, which does not occur with white students, who do not suffer immediately, the consequences of this stigma. Due to the flexible and ambiguous nature of classificatory schemes based on color mixing and operating in the Brazilian society, students who have smaller brands who report their racial belonging of African can enjoy the benefit of the doubt by sliding the discredited condition for of discreditable. The study asserts that the study subjects faced the college experience with material and symbolic coming of socioeconomic and racial inequalities added to the stigma of shareholder. They reached their graduation with institutional support from the university through grants to that they did justice and with two major strategies: the condition of student workers and belonging to different networks of solidarity.