Book, Racism and black people in Brazil, O: questions for psychoanalysis[LS]

Brazil is racist, but not me. ' In Brazil, the difficulty of perceiving the dimension of the racial issue hinders the process of building and constituting the country as a nation. Knowing that psychoanalysis, and all knowledge, follows the music of historical and cultural events, the publisher Perspectiva offers the reader a deep and burning debate on the thorny topic of racism and prejudice in Brazil by turning into a book the series of lectures held in 2012 , in São Paulo, by the Department of Psychoanalysis of the Sedes Sapientiae Institute on the subject, a reflection of the times and spaces that brought us to Brazil in the 2000s. After all, in what context are we immersed and what issues cross it? How can we explain the cruel tendency to make non-white people invisible and subjugate, through the ideal of whiteness? How to deal with the issue of racism in Brazil, which persists and clings to a slavery past that, even today, 'covers our social fabric, surviving with tenacious resistance to the moods of the time'?