WHY DO ASK FOR IT? RACE/COLOR QUESTION IN THE SINGLE REGISTRATION FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the filling out of the race/color question of the Federal Government Registry for the Social Programs (CadÚnico), carried out by social interviewers at a Social Assistance Reference Center, this article aims to discuss the racial tension present in the field of National Social Assistance Policy (PNAS). Assuming an investigative policy based on the studies of Science, Technology and Society and the Actor-Network Theory, we used field diaries registers as a tool for the production of data on the aforementioned filling. We point out that Brazilian racism and the ambiguities related to race/color are updated in filling out the CadÚnico, implying different performances in the production of racial self-declaration. In this view, the understanding of racial issues in the socioterritorial and subjective processes that cross the PNAS services is fundamental to the development of practices for the exercise of citizenship that do not corroborate the maintenance of Brazilian racial inequality