How can ethnicity promote recognition of an ethnic identity?

This article aims to understand and reflect on what has been produced in the last decade and a half of this century, focused on the theme of ethnicity, from 2001 to 2016. The methodology adopted was a consultation of the Journal Portal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel ( CAPES )/MEC. The choice of the theme was a personal decision, since it was a production for the conclusion of a discipline, with Professor Dr. Estevão Rafael Fernandes, who granted us autonomy to choose the theme. When accessing the aforementioned portal, I chose to search by subject. By entering the word ethnicity, the portal retrieved and made available 166 articles related to the theme, written in English and Spanish, of which 101 were peer-reviewed. I chose only articles written in Portuguese. As a selection criterion, I chose the most accessed articles on this theme. After refinement, the result was reduced to 10 articles. And it is these articles that support this work.