As ilusões da cor: sobre raça e assujeitamento no Brasil / The color illusions: about race and antipersonification in Brazil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This work aims at performing a historical analysis towards questioning the production and reproduction conditions of certain models (ideas and practices) regarding what become to be known as the Brazilian race problem. The purpose of this work is the mapping of the proliferation of various discourses regarding the construction of a national and civilized project whose backbone was the formation of a racial speech. In other words, we want to discuss how certain factors contributed to the engineering of an "efficient strangeness" derived from the creation of the so-called black element. This element turned out to be the most efficient representative of the social space designated to determine a strangeness locale (the other as dangerous, abnormal, different, etc). We discussed, based primarily on the research works of Raimundo Nina Rodrigues and of the Escola Baiana de Antropologia, the means by which such an academic knowledge facilitated the formulation of an explicatory psychophysical model for the degeneration of the Brazilian race. This model was subsequently generalized, which can be verified by concepts of culture or "acculturations", as well as by modern psychoanalytical concepts. Our proposal was to analyze the production of certain social practices: the constitution of a medico-psychology science; the diffusion of certain opinions regarding the black element through the press and the literature; and the judicial constitution of the black citizen. These practices were the result of the implementation of pre- and post-abolitionist legislative and political discussions inspired by a national and civil project whose backbone was the production of the black element as the principal character of this new script: the orthodoxy of color. We opted to focus our discussion on the formation process of Brazil and of the Brazilian between the final decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century (between 1870 and 1930), characterized by the ruptures aggravated by the imminent abolitionist process.

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socialcultural factors blacks assimilação cultural fatores socioculturais negros cultural assimilation

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