Mário de Andrade, scholar of prejudice and the color line in Brazil

This article examines a portion of documents from the Mário de Andrade collection (IEB/USP), with the support of genetic criticism, aiming to bring the cultural scholar closer to the manuscript “Preto”, the director of the Department of Culture of the city of São Paulo - creator of the celebrations for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Abolition - and the essayist of “Studies on the Black”, the second part of the posthumous work Aspects of Brazilian Folklore (2019). The dialogue between these works confirms that Mário de Andrade identifies the existence of a Brazilian-style color prejudice and, by experiencing the consequences of racial violence, reaches an understanding of the complexity of racism in Brazil, similar to what is currently called institutional racism (VINUTO, 2023).

KEYWORDS
Color prejudice; Mário de Andrade; racism in Brazil