This work deals with life histories of college students from PUC-Rio, after their graduation, who were included in the university s affirmative action program since 1993, with special emphasis on the black population. Those students belong to social networks called community pré-vestibulares. The aim of this work is to know the present professional reality of those individuals and to measure the impact of their college education upon their material lives and their social relations within family and community. This analysis is political and symbolically relevant because will enable to describe unknown aspects of the present professional life of the black population. Those aspects relate to day-to-day experiences of their entrance to the job market, as well as to the recently open access to a new cultural reality to the black population. The research is based on the interview of 14 individuals, whose life histories were described and analyzed with the purpose of understanding the impact of their professional training upon their rights as citizens of Brazilian society. The goal is to contribute information which will enable an evaluation of the impact of the affirmative actions of higher education institutions, as well as in the job market, concerning the remaining contents of racial relations in Brazilian cultural and social life.