This essay aims to provide elements for the study of the relationship between mental health and racism in order to cast a conception of humanity in public health as from the afrocentricity paradigm. These reflections depart from problematizing the existence of two civilizational paradigms that form the Brazilian society and produce subjectivities: the Western paradigm and the black-African one. In the public health field, the challenge concerns the launching of a new process of listening and recognition of different values and civilizational practices, breaking with the bigoted and racist sight still turned against African descendent people.
MENTAL HEALTH; Racism; Public health; Psychology, social