A PSICOLOGIA E O RACISMO ESTRUTURAL NA ATUALIDADE LATINO-AMERICANA

Abstract

The purpose of this text is inspired in a Amefrica Ladina as proposed by Lélia Gonzalez. Latinity matters to us here since it is accompanied by its blackness as a politician. Adding the field of Afro-Latin-American studies certainly implies crossings of slavery, the way of interpreting racial relations, racial inequalities and the form of political organization throughout this geographic and existential contingent. Seeking to locate Brazil in this belonging, not so much for its historicity but for its subjectivity and relationship with the inheritances of a deep and active structural racism. To do this, seek to problematize the body and behaviors that are driven by paradoxes, ambivalences and conflicts. The issue of miscegenation is highlighted because it has historically been a problem for nations that believed (no more?) in its praise as a national identity, as well as bets for erasing memories and abuses of forgetfulness in relation to black people. However, this same miscegenation when critical in its belonging and audacious in its questioning offers important powers in the decolonization processes that we still need to live. Psychology thus gains prominence in a possible contribution of what to do to acting through crevices and crossroads.