RACISM, ANTI-RACISM AND WHITENESS: THE SIGNS AND THE THEME IN DIALOGICAL RESONANCE IN THE IDEOLOGICAL FIGHTING

Abstract

“Mad Nigger”, “naughty Black”, “big lips” and “Bombril's hair” are some of the insults directed at black people. Racism structures and institutes the ordering of ethnic-racial relations through the theme of whiteness, from the colonial context to the present day. The ideologies around racialization reverberate as practices reproduced in the conditions of cultural production relations, impacting in different ways the political system that, a priori, excludes people of African descent from spaces of power and access to basic rights. The antithetical pairs in the struggle inscribed in the language around the significant “race” represent discourses disseminated by the transition from a dialectical dynamic, whose materiality also interferes in the consciousness and in the speech act of each individual.

Keywords: Dialectic; Philosophy of Language; Ethnic-racial relations.