Racismo: uma aproximação às bases materiais

Abstract

The present master’s dissertation entitled Racism: an approach to the material bases results from the research process on the theme of racial problems. Its central axis is the search for the material bases of racism with a view to unveiling its material strength as a social complex in the soil of the sociability of capital, when it emerges surrounded by prejudiced manifestations against black people in different forms of slavery in antiquity that was not supported by racial issues. Manifestations closely linked to social relations based on the exploitation of slave labor created in the process of capital expansion through the constitution of the colonies that marked the emergence of societies, not only, but especially in the Americas. It exposes the theme in productions by renowned authors, discussing its interpretations through critical elaborations based on the thoughts of Karl Marx and György Lukács whose tendencies identify the emergence of socially effective subjective manifestations on the economic-material basis. The perspective is to seek the foundations of racism in the material bases that forge the modern sociability that generates slavery and its particular form of exploitation of black labor, unveiling historical aspects of capitalist production under this domain and questioning the possibility of racism constitutes the foundation of society.