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13/Dec/2022
Carlos Augusto Sant’Anna Guimarães
DOI: 10.1590/1981-3821202200030005
In this article, I consider the approach of racial relations versus the perspective of racial politics. The former, formulated within the framework of the Chicago School of Sociology in the 1920s, assumes that races interact with each other according to the “cycle of racial relations”. This interpretation highlights the cultural and psychological dimensions and neglects the ideological, political, and institutional factors constraining and driving individual and collective choices. The racial politics approach suggests that social interactions are mediated by attributes […]
Keywords: mechanisms and process; post-racial democracy; racial ideology; Racial politics; racial relations