THE BODY IN UPDATED RACISM

Authors

  • Viviane Castro Camozzato UFRGS

Keywords:

Corpo, Norma, Diferença, Racismo.

Abstract

I have analysed racism concept from its relationship with the body discourses and its centrality when making contemporary subjects. It is critical here the process of investing and valuing the body cannot be separated from all discussions suggested by the growing investment on life coming from bio-power ― a power based on “live and let die” and which, in the case of discussions analysed in this paper, also implies racist practices involving separating people as “different ones” in an unbridled search for “purity” referred to in the analysed writings as a characteristic for “thin” people as opposed to “fat” ones. So I have discussed the existence of updated contemporary racism, once it is also possible to kill with words, silence, and moral judgement; that is, through constructing the “others” as different in the name of identity references.

Author Biography

Viviane Castro Camozzato, UFRGS

Pedagoga, Mestre e Doutoranda em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Membro do Núcleo de Estudos sobre Currículo, Cultura e Sociedade (NECCSO). Bolsista do CNPq - Brasil.

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Published

2011-09-26

How to Cite

Camozzato, V. C. (2011). THE BODY IN UPDATED RACISM. Educar Em Revista, 27(41), p. 165–180. Retrieved from https://revistas.ufpr.br/educar/article/view/15884

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 41 (2011)

Section

Demanda Contínua

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