A constru？？o sociológica da ra？a no Brasil

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.