RACISMO É UM TRAUMA COLONIAL: DIÁLOGOS ENTRE FRANTZ FANON, NEUSA SOUZA E GRADA KILOMBA SOBRE O ADOECIMENTO NEGRO NO BRASIL RACISM IS A COLONIAL TRAUMA: DIALOGUES BETWEEN FRANTZ FANON, NEUSA SOUZA AND GRADA KILOMBA ABOUT BLACK ILLNESS IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This article presents articulations between the contributions of Frantz Fanon, Neusa Santos Souza and Grada Kilomba, to understand everyday racism as colonial trauma and its emotional impact for black people. The content of the paper is an excerpt from a doctoral research that collected data from the life stories of 12 black people. From the collection of life stories, the impact of everyday racism on the processes of identity and subjectivity was evidenced, highlighting emotional damage or mental illness. We argue, throughout the manuscript, about how racist stereotypes fall on black bodies producing suffering resulting from a process of naturalization of the feeling of inferiority. In the end, we reinforce the need to consider racism as a central factor in the process of illness of black people and to produce an afro-referential knowledge in the field of mental health.