Do trabalho escravo ao racismo: sociabilidade no contexto capitalista brasileiro

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of research on slavery and the reproduction of racism in the context of capitalism and the main factors in the reproduction of structural inequality between black and white people, which permeates the slave system and remains until today. The general objective is to analyze racism in Brazil and its link with the inequalities perpetrated by slavery and perpetuated in its multiple dimensions in the present time, with emphasis on the insertion of the black workforce in the labor market. To achieve the objectives proposed in this work, the primitive accumulation of capital as a form of exploitation of the Brazilian colony, the transition from enslaved labor to free labor were discussed, and the work force, originating from capitalism and structural racism, which historically put the Brazilian black population in a condition of poverty. For this, bibliographical and documental research was used as a methodological procedure, referring to themes related to capitalism, work, Brazilian social formation and racism, in the area of social sciences and the foundations of critical social theory. In this work, sociohistorical conditions of the Brazilian social formation were used, from the period of enslavement to formal abolition, which is the historical matrix of racism in the present time. It is concluded that racism is the product of a socio-historical structure and a capitalist mode of production, which produces and reproduces wealth, but its enjoyment is very unequal. Capitalism, added to structural racism, enhances the overexploitation of the black population, more than the white one, submitting it to the condition of a more impoverished and subordinate class within the dynamics of the Brazilian capitalist system