A Discriminação do Negro como Fato Estruturador do Poder

Abstract

This text is a compilation of the speech pronounced for the closing of the course Debates on Africa, Colonialism and Construction of Identities, at the History Departament, FFLCH-USP, November of 2008. Social and ethnic relations and the labor market in Brazil are discussed to bring light on the presence of racism as strategy of State and the resulting place to Black people in this scene. The concepts of race, negritude, power, domination and caste are worked in the debate. De-construction of racism in the country is presented as an object of the political struggle of Black movements. It demands a full comprehension of fascitizing actions and proposals outcoming from the State, as result of its articulation with the capitalistic mode of production.