RACISM AS A POLITICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL TOOL FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION OF THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE BRAZILIAN SOCIETY
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This article discusses the use of category racism in studies about the condition of the black population, with a main objective of demonstrate its importance to the construction of this knowledge and political struggle that such studies may give rise. In this sense, we share with researchers pointing that exclusion and economic and social difficulties experienced by most blacks is no accident, or a natural process, but the result of specific relationships that are formed in the construction of our society, where racism is a fundamental determination to understanding this process. However, we point out that the use of this category to give a meaningful result cannot be transformed into a theoretical instrument with no dynamic for the study on the black question, taking from the field of study other important contributions on the conditions of the black population.
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