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THE MASKS OF OPPRESSION - NEW READINGS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACE AND CLASS

Abstract

Racism in capitalist society can be considered one of the most misunderstood issues in the social sciences, even by most of the most critical sociological currents. Racism, broadly speaking, presents two great massified and retro-fed understandings: one that conceptualizes it as a moral and individual issue and the other that starts from a debt to the past for lack of an adequate social insertion and for the difficulty assimilating the segregated population. The constitution of capitalist relations in their reproduction of a class sociability is hardly seen intrinsically linked to racism, erasing any racial content from the class constitution process. This erasure is due in large part to misinterpretations both of the content of racism and of the process of constitution of social class, which end up separating the social spheres into delimited objects, which hide in their delimitations the forms of contradiction and social domination of racialized capitalist relations. Thus, this article intends to deepen the debate about class constitution to understand it from the racialized forms of social domination.

Keywords:
Racism; Class Constitution; Critical Theory

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