Counterpoint to the concept of "whiteness" developed in the article: a psychosocial study of São Paulo's whiteness. Written by Lia Vainer Schucman in 2014.

Abstract

In the present article, I make a counterpoint to the concept of "whiteness" by Lia Vainer Schucman. For the author it is an aesthetic condition whose phenotype is distinguished by a racist language appropriated by these subjects as something intrinsic to the white culture that would give them superior intellectual and moral attitudes to non-white people. The term "whiteness" used to adjectives’ the racism of the white group is in itself a false universal that subsumes important differences within the white group, and may give rise to the essentialization of white and black identities. I seek to point out the limits of the rational reformulation of the terms white and black, and that the re-signification of the notion of race goes through synesthetic and affective experiences operated in the encounter of radically different worlds and subjects through the explicitness of the racial conflict between whites and blacks, in its double aspect of racial domination and economic oppression.