This dissertation aims at understanding how university scholars conceive, build, and engage in decolonial and intercultural perspectives in their academic praxis, while performing the epistemic turn demanded to disrupt with outdated academic paradigms. The present work is the result of a research developed throughout the implementation of a Professional Master Program in Education and Ethnic-Racial Relations (PPGER) at the Federal University of South Bahia (UFSB). PPGER Graduate Program has been conceived based on counterhegemonic perspectives and intents to engender process of reconfiguration of the current Brazilian university model. The core question is formulated as follows: which challenges and possibilities are posed to scholarly practices and knowledges through decolonial and intercultural perspectives while focused in ethnic-racial relations? The qualitative method of this research relies on a case study, its empirical matter. While taking into account its premise and context, it structured itself in three theoretical axes: (i) decolonial approaches; decoloniality, interculturality and intercultural education - using as references works by Candau (2000, 2003, 2016), Walsh (2009, 2013, 2016), Mato (2016), Castro-Gómez (2005), Mignolo (2017), Grosfoguel, (2008), Quijano (2000), Maldonado-Torres (2006), Castro-Gómez and Grosfoguel (2007); and (ii) Education and Ethnic-Racial Relations, primarily led by studies by Cavalleiro (2000), Rosemberg (1998, 2003), Gomes (2000, 2001, 2017), Spivak (2010), Hasenbalg and Silva (1998/1999) and Carvalho (2005) and; (iii) decolonial pedagogy and praxis, based on Maldonado-Torres (2007), Castro-Gómez e Grosfoguel (2007), Walsh (2009, 2010), Freire (2005), Mignolo (2005, 2008). Results indicate that, despite efforts by scholars to promote changes and advances towards practices and knowledges within academic environments, there still remain barriers – specially in Grad Programs – that keep the university model from effectively becoming a counterhegemonic space.