TOWARDS A RACIALIZED BRAZILIAN PSYCHOLOGY: CONTRIBUTIONS OF CIDA BENTO AND LELIA GONZALEZColoniality, understood from Anibal Quijano’s original proposal and its appropriation by feminist authors from Latin America and intersectional black feminism, is the large-scale application of a colonial project with universalist pretensions, which makes use of racism and patriarchy to legitimize and produce lives for capitalism. Brazilian Psychology, structured based on this form of social administration, produces and reproduces this universalist project in its proposals. In this article, we aim to present the contributions of Cida Bento and Lélia González, who have been producing concepts for the human sciences for decades and who, however, are not usually remembered in Psychology courses. We believe that the introduction of knowledge produced from black thought contributes to the construction of a racialized and decolonized Psychology, attentive to its practice through concepts produced in the Brazilian reality, such as studies on “whiteness” and the “dynamics of racism and sexism in the Brazilian way”.
Keywords:
Social Psychology; Racism; Sexism; Cida Bento; Lélia Gonzalez