RaÃa e JustiÃa: o mito da democracia racial e o racismo institucional no fluxo de justiÃa

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Our aim is to show how the Myth of Racial Democracy interferes with decisions made at the level of the legal system. The âMyth of Racial Democracyâ is considered as an ideological device for reproducing racial relations by hindering its public discussion. Its actualization is based on two forms of discourse: the ideological unrecognizing of racial relations and the racist âunsaidâ. The âMyth of Racial Democracyâ was established by the displacement of racial discourse (racist or not) from the domain of âserious discourseâ (argumentative, rational, formal and public), thus constituting what we call here ideological unrecognizing. Such non-recognition does not mean an âabsenceâ of knowledge or passive ignorance, but the marginalization of those types of knowledge considered as irrelevant, as false problems, as non-sensical, via the establishment of what constitutes the relevant issues. Racial discourse has been concealed by everyday discourse (aforismatic, passional, informal and private) with the consolidation of the racist âunsaidâ, itself, closely linked to âcordialâ, paternalistic and patrimonialistic power relations: a silence pact between dominators and the dominated. The unsaid is but a technique of saying something without having to accept the responsibility of having said it. Therefore, racist discourse makes use of a plethora of resources such as the implicit, oblique speech, figures of speech, puns, witticisms, commonplace sentences, proverbs, jokes and racial insults.

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racismo mith of racial democracy racial relations discourse theory mito da democracia racial sociologia racisme sistema jurÃdico legal sistem relaÃÃes raciais teoria do discurso

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