A systematic review of Brazilian literature on the representativeness of political minorities

The identity that characterizes political minorities is associated with categories through which they are characterized as incompatible. The objective is to understand the phenomenon of repre-sentativeness associated with political minorities by conducting a systematic review of the Brazili-an literature, as well as the reflection and problematization of the concepts raised. The de-scriptors are "representativeness" and "identity" in the databases IndexPsi, Pepsic, Scielo and Capes Publications, for the time period 2000-2018. In all, 35 articles were included, which presented descriptors to social groups in the abstract. The concept of representativeness, as an empower-ment social mechanism of minority groups, presents difficulties of standardization given the com-plexity of social relations; demanding the election of influential authors in the political and cul-tural layers in the recognition of the identity of the group and in the defense of their own inter-ests, in overcoming feelings imminent to inequalities and in the reformulation of power relations.