RACISM IN BRAZIL AND ITS COMBAT WITH THE 1988 CONSTITUTION

Abstract

This article sought to demonstrate that in Brazil, in its formation process, racism was a central figure in allowing the use of black labor in a slave manner and later, after the abolition of slavery, allowing it to be used in unfavorable conditions and under low remuneration, when compared to white labor of European origin. Through bibliographical research, the work evaluates whether racism, although denied and never assumed in our country, caused a considerable portion of the Brazilian population to be displaced to the outskirts of cities and not have access to education on an equal footing with white people, maintaining the black people on the margins of development built, ironically, with their work. With the 1988 Constitution, we see in its Article 5, section This work intends to support the hypothesis that the 1988 Constitution, although it has not yet repaired the exploitation of slave labor of black people for several centuries, brought a useful tool to confront the systematic practice of racism in our country.