Sobre o racismo: diálogo em duas vozes a partir de Michel Foucault e Achille Mbembe

Abstract

The presente research, developed as a final work for the bachelor’s degree in History, aims to investigate the contributions of Achille Mbembe and Michel Foucault to the debate on the racial issue based on the works: Políticas da Inimizade (2020), Crítica da Razão Negra (2019), Em defesa da sociedade (2018) e História da sexualidade vol. I: A vontade de saber (2019). We developed our discussion from the investigation of Foucauldian thought and his discussions about racism through his studies on the Technologies of power that arise with Bourgeois democracies, we oppose this author to Mbembe who brings us forgotten element as central to the debate on racial discrimination on Foucault’s reflections on the tradition of anti-colonialism and the black experience to think about the place that racial discrimination occupies in our contemporaneity. We highlight in both authors their contributions of method and historiography to think about the place that racismo historically occupies in our Mordernety.