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| Author(s): |
Sylvia da Silveira Nunes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2010-05-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Leon Crochik;
Antonio Sergio Guimaraes;
Kabengele Munanga;
Maria Helena Souza Patto;
Luis Guilherme Galeão da Silva
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| Advisor: | Jose Leon Crochik |
| Abstract | |
Racism is a subject rarely discussed in psychology, however, this is a serious social problem. In several countries, studies have pointed an increasing frequency of subtle prejudice, despite the decreased incidence of more explicit forms. Our goal in this work was to understand this new face of racism the subtle one. The study was conducted in two countries, Brazil and Spain. Among the various human groups possible to be the target of racist practices, we focus on racism against blacks in Brazil and against gitanos in Spain. Although there are differences in the history of each group, it is common to continue discriminatory practices against them, although they live in Brazilian and Spanish territory for centuries. This research combined quantitative methods (scales of subtle and blatant prejudice of Pettigrew and Meertens) and qualitative (interviews). The questionnaire had been answered by 235 students in Brazil and 71 in Spain. From this sample, we interviewed 15 Brazilian and 4 in Spanish. For the analysis of quantitative data, statistical tests were made. For the interviews were formulated categories of analysis. The questionnaire´s data indicated: (1) the Spanish declare prejudice easier; (2) men showed greater prejudice than women, both in Brazil and in Spain; (3) the prejudice subtle is higher than blatant in the both samples; (4) about 75% of the Brazilian sample is selfidentified as white, but only about a third has white ancestry. In other words, most of the participants are mixed, but identify themselves as white. The interviews revealed more elements to the understanding of racism, pointing out some issues about dynamics of racial prejudice. For instance, the problem of subtlety discrimination; racist jokes; blaming the victim; rejection of affirmative action proposals due attributing to the blacks, the responsibility for change their own situation; false neutrality in approaches about racial subjects; and the nonperception of presence of racialization. The nonracist statements were few and insufficient to compose a specific category. Despite these results, we studied the admission of their own racism an attitude that points a way to overcome racial prejudice. We conclude that this thesis has made contributions to the reflection of subtle racism. We suggest further research and interventions with the goal of reflection on social problem pointed here, thereby the overcoming of prejudice in human relations (AU) | |