Labor and Racial Inequality in Brazil

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2162202219101

• Palavras-chave: racial inequality; structural racism; means of production;job; health crisis.

• Keywords: racial inequality; structural racism; means of production;job; health crisis.

• Abstract:

  In spite of recent affirmative public policies, as well as the equality formally established by the Federal Constitution of 1988, Brazilian society has not yet reached the stage of a racial democracy. In this text, structural racism is placed as a determining element in the context of discrimination and exclusion of blacks in the Brazilian labor market. Understanding this situation of inequality requires an analysis of the historical factors that structured the formation of Brazilian society and that resulted in the construction of a culture marked by racism, present at the base of its organization and in the construction of its cultural values, with the ethnic-racial dimension associated with social, economic, political and ideological aspects, despite recent affirmative public policies, as well as formally equality established by the Federal Constitution of 1988, Brazilian society has not yet reached the stage of a racial democracy. In this text, structural racism is placed as a determining element in the context of discrimination and exclusion of blacks in the Brazilian labor market. Understanding this situation of inequality requires an analysis of the historical factors that structured the formation of Brazilian society and that resulted in the construction of a culture marked by racism, present at the base of its organization and in the construction of its cultural values, with the ethnic-racial dimension associated with social, economic, political and ideological aspects.