JOURNAL

AMERICAN

OPEN ACCESS OF SOCIAL ISSUES AND HUMANITIES

Some Notes on the Race and Class Relationship Struggle in

Contemporary Brazil
Antonio Moreira da Silva Jnior; Wellington Amancio da Silva
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
antoniojrprof@gmail.com
Universidade do Estado da Bahia
welliamancio@hotmail.com

ABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to discuss the specificities and possible links between racism and
class society as processes built historical, social and culturally. The text provides information on
racism explaining its origins, and justifying that it only is justified by the commercial company.
It also raises the question regarding the conditioning that some segments are subjected to realize
its control and domination. Suggests that only through consciousness of class society, and its end
we can make a more human world.
Keywords: racism; conditioning; social class; capitalism

INTRODUCTION democracy, pseudo-scientific ideologies to

Racism was developed in the context
created by the development of
systemic slavery in the 'New World':
the idea that Africans were (in
Hume's words) naturally inferior to
whites justified the act of denying
them the rights of Englishmen and
enslavement them. Callinicos
To briefly analyze the stratified society into
classes, but also the sale or conditioning that
are subject to the lower classes said, could
also observe these classes divided into races
in concrete social conditions and
intentionally veiled related to the idea of
race. This economic model provides the
maintenance of power through social classes
and through the economistic model of race.
Besides legitimizations and perpetuaes, is
produced concurrently with this racism hues
sedimented in economic levels and political
characteristic. Thus, we understand racism
as a byproduct of class society, perpetuating
the hoax through discourse of racial
legitimize and justify.
RACISM IN A CLASS PERSPECTIVE
Once, I was surprised to wake up by my
mother who gave me a comic book entitled:
Spider-Man vs. Superman. I was delighted
with that North American mythical epic.
Now imagine a downward seven-year child
of an Indian Karuaz of origin, which is
unconsciously wrapped in a fantasy world
where magic and sculptural bodies allude to
a world designed by an artist pictorial, that
next to a mega company of comics, prints in
the minds of millions of children around the
world, an aesthetic pattern of the human
form, derived from the Greek idea of beauty.
In the course of the past 50 years, rapid
advances in science have generated growing
gap between the knowledge of the public
and those owned and used by the ruling
elites. Thanks to biology, neurobiology and
applied psychology, the system has
enjoyed an advanced knowledge of the
human being, both physical and
psychological form. The system has been
able to better understand the common person

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