Racism and biopolitics:

contributions to post-colonial criticism

Authors

  • André Brayner de Farias Universidade de Caxias do Sul Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

Racism, Biopolitics, Becoming-black of the world, post-colonial criticism

Abstract

The study addresses the phenomenon of racism as a political device that structures the functioning of capitalism from its origins in the first wave of European slave colonialism. The tendency of anti-racial criticism to center the problem of racism on African descent identity is certainly justifiable, especially in historical realities such as those of Brazil. Just look at the statistics to understand: the victims of racism remain people of African origin. However, we offer here elements for a non-identity approach to the phenomenon whose aim will be to understand racism as a process of generalizing discriminatory and exclusionary logic. Michel Foucault's biopolitical perspective will be a key reference in our study, but we think it should be deepened if our intention is postcolonial criticism, and thus Achille Mbembe's analyzes will be even more fundamental.

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Published

2019-12-01

Issue

Section

DOSSIER: ANIMALISMOS EN LOS HORIZONTES DE LAS LUCHAS ANTICAPITALISTAS

How to Cite

Racism and biopolitics: : contributions to post-colonial criticism. (2019). Revista Latinoamericana De Estudios Críticos Animales, 6(2). https://revistaleca.org/index.php/leca/article/view/263