Tempos de racialização: o caso da 'saúde da população negra' no Brasil

Abstract

The article analyzes initiatives aimed at creating a field of reflection and political intervention called the 'health of the black population,' which occurred between 1996 and 2004, that is, under the administration of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and part of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's administration. During this period, the process of discussing and enacting affirmative action policies in Brazil gained greater visibility, especially following the UN-sponsored Third World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (Durban, South Africa, September, 2001). The article describes the emergence of a proposal of compensatory policy within the Brazilian public health system. It then addresses the contemporary debate on race and health, especially the U.S. biomedical literature, and explores how this discussion has been appropriated by agencies and agents concerned with drawing up a 'racial policy' for the public health sector in Brazil.

Sobre escravos e genes: “origens” e “processos” nos estudos da genética sobre a população brasileira

“…In Brazil, these broader debates gained ground in the last decade of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century, with discussions about the implementation of race-based affirmative action policies in the country. 9 These discussions tended to focus on introducing such policies in the sphere of education, and only secondarily analyzed their introduction in the field of health (Oliveira, 2003(Oliveira, , 2004Fry, 2005;Maio, Monteiro, 2005). The issues raised centered around the "racial" inequalities found in statistical studies, how best to reduce such inequalities, the role of miscegenation in the country's history, and the difficulty of establishing clear race/color categories for use in such affirmative action policies.…”

A celebração oficial da nova diversidade no Brasil

“…Hoje, não se luta categoricamente contra a "raça". Luta-se contra as desigualdades raciais, por justiça distributiva, por oportunidades, por políticas focais, por ações afirmativas, por cotas e por dispositivos legais de discriminação positiva, portanto, pela afirmação da raça (Maio & Monteiro, 2005). É a nova compreensão das desigualdades raciais e do racismo estrutural que promove essa nova versão de diversidade.…”

“…Em Durban, ainda sob o governo de Fernando Henrique Cardoso, teria início a trajetória da "promoção racial", acalentada e reforçada no governo Lula, em clara resposta aos movimentos sociais e às pressões internacionais, "indicador preciso de como as pautas nacionais são definidas em arenas internacionais" (Maio & Monteiro, 2005).…”

Does the way I see you affect the way I see myself? Associations between interviewers' and interviewees' "color/race" in southern Brazil

“…These discussions involve a wide variety of ideological hues and encompass aspects related to the causes of these inequalities as well as forms of control, strategies for amelioration, and their possible socio-political repercussions. However, the importance of the relationship between "race" and health is not limited to public health ARTIGO ARTICLE research, with a renewed interest and outstanding contributions from other fields, like sociology, psychology, and anthropology 8,9 .…”