The article discusses the notions of race, racialism and racism in order to reflect upon some of the concrete date on the issue of social inequality in Brazil, showing that such dimension cannot be reduced to poverty. From the referential of the production of subjectivity and the concept of biopower in Foucault's works, some studies that analyze the issue of racism and how it operates concerning the acess to health and education will be examined. This work also intends to start a brief revision of the theme's literature on researches and studies on the field of psychology.
race; racism; racial inequality; the effects of racism