Sim, nós somos racistas: Estudo psicossocial da branquitude Paulistana

Abstract

This article aims to make a contribution to the field of study that relates the categories of race, racism and psychology and is part of the national and international field of critical studies on whiteness. For this purpose, it was made an analysis of how white people appropriate the categories of race and racism in their subjective constitution. Data was drawn from interviews made with white Brazilians from São Paulo of different social classes, gender and generations in order to grasp the ascribed meaning of being "white". The findings show that racism and the fallacious idea of race, built in the nineteenth century, still echoes in the modes of subjectivation of white individuals. Based on the analysis of the interviews, it was possible to realize that they believe that "being white" determines moral, intellectual and aesthetic characteristics of individuals.