Toward a Sociology of Racism

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2024.226504

Keywords:

Racism, Race, Sociology, Race relations, Racial discrimination

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.

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Author Biographies

  • Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo

    Senior full professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo. CNPq Senior Researcher.

  • Luiz Augusto Campos, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

    Professor of the postgraduate programs in Sociology and Political Science at the  Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Iesp-Uerj), where he coordinates the the Group of Multidisciplinary Studies on Affirmative Action (Gemaa) and publishes the scientific journal Dados. He is the author and co-author of several articles and books, including Race and elections in Brazil (Zouk, 2020) and Affirmative action: the concept, history, and debate (Eduerj, 2018). He was a visiting researcher at SciencesPo in Paris (2014) and at New York University (NYU-2020-2021). He participated in the coordination of the ANPOCS Race Relations GT (2016-2018), the ABCP Race and Politics at and the ANPOCS-Digital committee. He was a representative of the Humanities  collection on the Scielo Advisory Board (2022-2023), member of the DataLabe Advisory Board and consultant for the Ciência Suja podcast (2023). He is a PQ-CNPq (2), JCNE-Faperj and Prociência-Uerj scholarship holder. He was Professor at Unirio (2013-2014), UFRJ (2010), PUC-RJ (2010) and executive secretary of the Brazilian Association of Researchers in Political Communication (Compolítica). In 2021, he participated in the conception and organization of the Lélia Gonzalez Prize for Scientific Manuscripts on Race and Politics (ABCP, Nexo and Ibirapitanga) and the Digital Atlas of Social Sciences (ANPOCS). He is a columnist for the newspaper Nexo. He works on research on racial inequalities and democracy, and scientometrics.

  • Matheus Gato, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

    Professor in the Sociology department at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the State University of  Campinas (Unicamp), where he coordinates the Carolina de Jesus Studies Center (Bitita). He is a researcher at  Afro/Cebrap.

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Published

2024-08-19

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 2 (2024)

Section

Dossier - Analytical challenges of the Sociology of Racism in Brazil

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Guimarães, A. S. A., Campos, L. A., & Gato, M. (2024). Toward a Sociology of Racism. Tempo Social, 36(2), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2024.226504