Abstract
This article aims to problematize the majority absence of Black men in the Centro de Referência da Assistência Social - CRAS [Reference Center for Social Assistance]. We analyze a discourse about service users from interviews conducted for a broader research produced with service workers in a city in the south of Brazil. The perspective was based on Laclau and Mouffe's discourse analysis, locating discursive articulations that inscribe social identities and produce the subject's sensitive relationship with the world, disputing space in the conflictive social field. As a result, we perceive racism as a producer of a sensitive frontier in the team's relationship with men in the community, in a way that these bodies are assumed to be dangerous and threatening, moving them away from the reading that assumes them as subjects in social vulnerability and as a person for whom the public policy of social assistance is intended.
Keywords:
Racism; Social Assistance Policy; CRAS; Racial Relations; Community Networks