The aim of this study was investigate the projects and individual pathways of young African descendent, who seek in higher education, an efficient mechanism for social mobility. Based on the evidence pointed by previous studies of social mobility in Brazil and the United States, is primarily studied the route of young that are the first-generation college students. This research will examine the bureaucratization of the body s sense as key interpretive social ethos, which has in social mobility a central value. Thus, the embodiment of the signs of social distinction ultimately builds a habitus, associated with success and social prestige. In this sense, the present study proposes to conduct an ethnographic study with young African descendent students we can put into question the alleged predominance of assimilation behaviors, such as whiteness and the action White as the main route to social mobility. Will use chains of meanings, feeling and values, built on a unique combination of cultural factors that have in your body privileged locus of analysis. We analyze ultimately as the ascension project is linked to the dynamics of hierarchical and individualism ideology.