THE INFLUENCE OF THE COLONIAL HISTORICAL PAST ON RACISM AGAINST AFRICANS AND AFRO-DESCENDANTS IN PORTUGAL

Abstract

This article deals with the influence of the colonial historical past on racism against Africans and Afro-descendants in the neighborhoods of Lisbon. In this logic, it emphasizes that the vast majority of immigrants who currently make up this African people in the diaspora, particularly in different neighborhoods of Lisbon/Portugal, came from African countries colonized by Portugal after the emancipation of these territories dominated by imperialist policy. Therefore, the study aims to understand the implications of racism suffered by Africans and Afro-descendants in different neighborhoods of Lisbon. In view of this, it is observed that there is a complex problem of recognition of African populations residing outside their countries of origin, so this requires a deep knowledge of the history and events of the colonial past in Africa and that determined this entire process of forced immigration. Of this population to different countries of the world and of their trajectories and struggles until today. Regarding the methodological course of the work, it was based on a bibliographical research with a reflective approach in which the data extracted from books and articles by different researchers receive an interpretative treatment of the topics discussed and related to the subject developed here in our work. In short, racism leaves Africans and Afro-descendants in Lisbon very vulnerable, including moral and psychological damage. In addition, it is investigated as a political project created by modern States to establish racial segregation and hierarchizing the different social groups with unequal cultures.