Revista Katálysis (Nov 2018)

Anti-racist struggle, unity and transformation: a theoretical essay

  • Diogo Joaquim dos Santos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02592018v21n3p594
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 3
pp. 594 – 601

Abstract

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This essay reflects on the debate about race and class in Brazil, starting from the analysis of the central hypothesis that this debate is still rooted in a supposed impossibility that race and class form a unit. This old-fashioned idea, however, appears as a form of legitimation of the bourgeois ideology and expresses the real fragmentation of the working class as whole. In this sense, its progress involves a collective effort of mobilization and systematic organization and union between antiracist struggle and the fight against all forms of exploitation and oppression of class societies, that are observed in reality.

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