Racism in the brazilian way or racism without racists: coloniality of power and denial of racism in the university environment

Authors

  • ÂNGELA FIGUEIREDO Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia
  • RAMÓN GROSFOGUEL Universidade da Califórnia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v12i2.9096

Keywords:

racial inequalities, racial hierarchies, coloniality of power, geopolitics of knowledge, modernity

Abstract

The adoption of a quota system by the Brazilian Public Universities has aroused an intensive and heated debate among several antiracist Brazilian intellectuals who aim to build a fairer society, but who also place themselves in opposite positions when the theme is the implementation of quotas. The negative reaction of white as well as mixed-race scholars, from both the left and the right wings, against this quota system is due to their concern about the possibility that Brazil might become a racist country thus rejecting the positive connotation traditionally attached to our racial mixture. In this article we use Aníbal Quijano’s concept of colonialility of power. Accordingly, the article discusses the importance of the geopolitics of knowledge since it is crucial that we understand the epistemic location and the positions taken by different social actors.

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Author Biographies

ÂNGELA FIGUEIREDO, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia

Doutora em Sociologia (Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro)Professora da Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da BahiaCachoeira, BA, Brasil

RAMÓN GROSFOGUEL, Universidade da Califórnia

Doutor em Sociologia (Temple University)Professor da Universidade da Califórnia

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Published

2010-03-18

How to Cite

FIGUEIREDO, ÂNGELA; GROSFOGUEL, R. Racism in the brazilian way or racism without racists: coloniality of power and denial of racism in the university environment. Sociedade e Cultura, Goiânia, v. 12, n. 2, p. 223–234, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/sec.v12i2.9096. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/fcs/article/view/9096. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2009)

Section

Thematic Dossier

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