The USE OF THE CONCEPT OF HEGEMONY, IN ANTONIO GRAMSCI, TO UNDERSTAND THE TRANSFORMATION OF RACISM INTO A SOCIAL STRENGTH AND ONE OF THE STRUCTURES OF BRAZILIAN SOCIETY

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate the relevance of using the concept of hegemony, in Antonio Gramsci, as a theoretical instrument for understanding the transformation of racism into a social force and into one of the structures of Brazilian society from three dimensions: racism as a construction social, involving theory, intellectuals, civil society bodies and the State; the penetration of racist ideology into the subjectivity of whites and blacks; and the functionality of racism for Brazilian capitalism. In chronological terms, the period covered will be from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, starting from the second and third projects of national identity, demonstrating how much these historical processes resignified and deepened the prejudice and racial discrimination against the black population that emerged. in the colonial period.