FROM SCIENTIFIC RACISM TO SOCIAL RACISM: THE CONCEPT OF "RACE" IN HUMAN RELATIONS

This theoretical essay aims to briefly problematize two of the discourses supporting racism that reverberate in social discrimination based on skin color in Brazil: the scientific meanings and the social basis that permeate our social relations. The onto-epistemological method adopted was based on studies in the field of ethnic-racial relations, focusing on issues of race and racism. This exercise leads us to discuss the assumptions of the project that structures, such logic, the use of the term “race” on its opposite side, as an instrument for the debate about human relations, since it is through them that people are socially victimized. We argue that it is necessary to invest in the humanization of victims of racism so that humanity can be established in human beings. The inhuman actions of racists find echoes in subjects whose humanity is denied through skin color.