Toward a sociology of racism

Abstract

If racism has become a fully legitimized theme in contemporary public debate, its sociological investigation is sometimes left unexplored. If it is natural and even desirable that Brazilian racism be a premise for the political movements that seek to denounce it, so too should it be natural and valid to pursue sociological research interested in understanding its dynamics. In this text, we highlight the general orientations of the authors of this collection toward the aim of producing a sociology of Brazilian racism attentive to its empirical mechanisms, social impacts, and internal logic. To this end, we highlight the centrality of an implicit or explicit notion of race in the processes of racialization and differential treatment.

Keywords: Racism; Race; Sociology; Race relations; Racial discrimination