O pioneirismo de Alberto Guerreiro Ramos nos estudos sobre hierarquias raciais : a gênese de uma formação discursiva pós-colonial
Abstract
The thesis presented here aims to point to studies by sociologist Alberto
Guerreiro Ramos about relationships (or hierarchies) race in the decades 1940-
50, demonstrating aspects (themes, methods, categories of analysis) developed
in postcolonial studies. I follow an initial hypothesis that the writings of Guerreiro
Ramos constitute black thought. So I will try to show how models that inspired
the author - especially phenomenology and existentialism - were mobilized in
the preparation of statements of very authentic and original way. However, the
context in which he produced his study of race relations was the affirmation of a
way of thinking which Guerreiro Ramos little or scarcely converged. He was
taking notes and incorporating that knowledge came from the blackness of the
African diaspora, the process of African decolonization and other foreign
references as well as debates on Brazilian development. Keep that to the extent
that these mergers happened he found it difficult to read a perspective that he
himself does not seem to be fully aware, namely that he operated a locus of
enunciation interstitial, constituting what Hall called decentered subject.