Racism in the Family and the Construction of Blackness: Clashes and Limits Between Degradation and Positivation in the Constitution of the Subject
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psicologia, mestiçagem, branquitude, identidade.Abstract
This article aims to address the impacts that the experience of racism within the family environment has on the subjectivity of individuals. It therefore addresses the ways in which this experience interferes in the formation of the subject's identity, in his self-image, and in the construction of self-esteem. These processes, multiple and complex, will be observed from the analysis of the story of the stories and life experiences of a person, Mariana. Although it deals with Mariana, through her voice, many others speak. Many Brazilian families are represented here in the painful experience of many women and men who have experienced racism since early childhood. Told and vivified by it, as well as interpreted in the light of the signifiers and meanings that it ascribes to these experiences, its account allows to think the psychosocial effects of the experience of the racial violence and the racism when it is lived by the black subjects in the familiar arrangements in which the white family is explicitly racist.
Keywords: psychology, mestizaje, whiteness, identity.
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