Desafios éticos e políticos da luta de classes e o mito da democracia racial em Florestan Fernandes

Kátia Regina de Souza Lima

doi:10.1590/1982-02592017v20n3p353

Ethical Challenges, the Politics of Class Struggle and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Florestan Fernandes

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Kátia Regina de Souza Lima Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02592017v20n3p353

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the formulations of Florestan Fernandes about the myth of Brazilian racial democracy and problematize recent data about unemployment, imprisonment and homicides in Brazil, based on this theoretical foundation. It is a bibliographic and document analysis related to a research project undertaken by a network of researchers from the field of education. It concludes that one of the ethical and political challenges to the break with capitalism is criticism of the myth of racial democracy that disguises racial intolerance and maintains a surplus population that is excluded or included in a subaltern form in the labor market. This myth has a functionality in the bourgeois order, particularly in a dependent capitalist country like Brazil.

Author Biography

Kátia Regina de Souza Lima, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro

Possui graduação em Serviço Social pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1986), mestrado em Serviço Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1993) e doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (2005). Atualmente é professora adjunto da Escola de Serviço Social e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

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Published

2017-10-11

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Vol. 20 No. 3 (2017): Ética e política

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Thematic space

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