Racismo estrutural no Brasil: a luta por uma sensibilidade do mundo decolonial

Abstract

The present work addresses conceptual issues about racism in Brazil related to the historical process of colonization, highlighting the creation of a hegemonic, Eurocentric, patriarchal collective imaginary, reproduced by the dominant ideology andreinforced by racist practices in social relations. On the other hand, we bring decoloniality as an epistemological rupture that seeks to break with the dominant colonial ideologies that prevail over Western thought and points out ways to face structural racism. The theoretical contribution is given by the decolonial perspective of authors such as Walter Mignolo (2017), Anibal Quijano (2009), Molefi Asante (2009), Nah Dove (2017) and Lélia Gonzales (1984) and questions about race, racism, anti-racism and structural racism with authors such as Kabengele Munanga (1999), Antônio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães (1999), Carlos Moore (2007), Antônio Olímpio de Sant`Anna (2004). The methodology used was bibliographic research with an exploratory and descriptive character. Society needs to believe that racism exists to be fought, contrary to the veiled and denialist way in which it is presented in Brazilian daily life. As a result, we have a popular imaginary for specific forms of racism culturally sedimented by a colonization project that imposed and imposes the image of blacks with characteristics of inferiority in the most diverse existing social institutions: structural racism, institutional racism, media racism, epistemic racism and environmental racism.