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Racismo à brasileira ou racismo sem racistas: colonialidade do poder e a negação do racismo no espaço universitário

2010; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS; Volume: 12; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5216/sec.v12i2.9096

1980-8194

Ângela Figueiredo, Ramón Grosfoguel,

Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil

The adoption of a quota system by the Brazilian Public Universities has aroused an intensive and heated debate among several antiracist Brazilian intellectuals who aim to build a fairer society, but who also place themselves in opposite positions when the theme is the implementation of quotas. The negative reaction of white as well as mixed-race scholars, from both the left and the right wings, against this quota system is due to their concern about the possibility that Brazil might become a racist country thus rejecting the positive connotation traditionally attached to our racial mixture. In this article we use Anibal Quijano’s concept of colonialility of power. Accordingly, the article discusses the importance of the geopolitics of knowledge since it is crucial that we understand the epistemic location and the positions taken by different social actors.