Preto no Branco: Ensaio sobre Questão Racial, Descolonização e Pretitude na/da Psicologia brasileira

Abstract

To think about Brazilian Psychology is to understand that the knowledge construction in this field of professional practice happens through means that are inserted in the colonial structure of our country, impregnated with racist ideals. It is by understanding this structure from the lack of a Psychology that comprehends pretitude in its formation, theory and practice, and aiming at its blackening, that the main goal of this work is to present guiding points for the relationship construction, in Brazil, between Psychology and the racial issue. Therefore, by a bibliographical review on the literature of national Psychology on the platforms Scielo, Pepsic, Capes, Scopus and Academic Google, I built a path that begins with a brief history of the relationship between psychological knowledge and the racial issue dating from the colonial period up to the late twentieth century. Then, I point out the structural issues of our colonialist society through the processes of racialization and racism and, thus, I propose an argument about the decolonization of Psychology from the concrete and symbolic insertion of ancestral black knowledge in professional training, theory and practice. As racism is a pandemic force, there is little academic production that takes into account the black experience. However, the construction of a Black and decolonized Psychology is present and pertinent.