“Body out of place”

combating academic racism

Abstract

Structural racism in all its shades brings a series of negative consequences to the lives of black people that encompass issues of self-esteem, violence, opportunities for socioeconomic access, and the exercise of citizenship. In Brazil, a country founded on inequality in which a discourse of meritocracy moves freely in social domains, racism is reconfigured in other areas, such as academia, in which the logic of oppression takes root in the matrices of knowledge and displaces knowledge arising from traditions Afro-Brazilian and black bodies as minor knowledge for science. In this sense, our objective is to discuss the issues that permeate the phenomenon of academic racism and the ways in which we as a society must combat it. To this end, we resort to interdisciplinary works that address the issues of race and racism in the effort to expand the critical discussion on phenomena unfolded by them, namely: public policies, the production of Afro-centered knowledge, the impact of racism on ways of life. The works of bell hooks (2020, 2021), Grada Kilomba (2019), Frantz Fanon (2008), Luiz Rufino (2019), Lélia Gonzalez (2020), Gabriel Nascimento (2019), Silvio Almeida (2019) will be used for this approach.