Controvérsias em torno de um conceito: um estudo da raça nas Ciências Sociais.

Abstract

This term paper aims to understand the importance of the 'race' category in the sociological explanations of social inequalities, for such, we present a historic of the 'race' debate in Brazil. We will point out the ideologies behind the concept of race in racists and anti-racists theories that were spread in the country on the nineteenth century, we will expose the imbrications between the aspects of race and class and analyze, through the example of Affirmative Actions of racial quotas for the ingress to higher education, how is the current debate of race relations in Brazil. We use the literature review of several authors considered of great importance for the national and international debate of ethnic-racial relations. We realize, at the end of the study, that even though some authors advocate overcoming the use of 'race' as a scientific concept, it remains a social marker and, thus, remains extremely important to understand our social reality.