%0 Journal Article
%T A constru£¿£¿o sociol¨®gica da ra£¿a no Brasil
%A Costa
%A S¨¦rgio
%J Estudos Afro-Asi¨¢ticos
%D 2002
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S0101-546X2002000100003
%X establishing positively that race records in brazil lead up to social inequalities that might permit a definition of two basic population groups - whites and non-whites -, some racial studies adopt the concept (non-biological) of race as a general sociological and political category. the race category, although essential for the studies of race inequalities, when transformed in a general instrument of analysis and normative desideratum, leads to an incomplete comprehension of the brazilian national formation, to an objectivist vision of the race relations and to a reduction of the social identities to its political-instrumental dimension.
%K race inequalities
%K cultural identity
%K social acknowledgement in brazil
%K race categories.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0101-546X2002000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en