“…Finally, organizations are subject to the influence of activists working within them, broader social movements (Davis, McAdam, Scott, and Zald, 2005), and other stakeholders. Case studies have shown that black activism was instrumental in the adoption of procedures to validate the racial self-declarations (Batista, Figueiredo, 2020;Dias, Tavares Junior, 2018;Guimarães, Rios, Sotero, 2020;Leite, 2020;Marques, 2019;Oliveira, 2019;Silva, Cirqueira, Rios, Alves, 2020). To understand how this happened, we have sought to identify the channels through which demands formulated by social movements reached policymakers (Lavalle, Carlos, Dowbor, Szwako, 2018;Rios, 2018) and the judiciary and the results that ensued.…”