Editorial.

AutorSilva, Ana Paula Procopio da
CargoEditorial

This issue of the journal Em Pauta--Social Theory and Contemporary Reality, continues with the practice of inviting guest editors for the organization of thematic dossiers. Thus, the 45th issue, Ethnic-Racial Question and Anti-Racism, was organized by Ana Paula Procopio da Silva, from the State University of Rio de Janeiro's School of Social Work, and Magali da Silva Almeida, from the Federal University of Bahia's Graduate Program in Social Work, both with a background in the academy and anti-racist militancy.

Racial relations constitute a research theme in the areas of social work, social sciences, and humanities yet to gain depth and, therefore, it is undoubtedly appropriate that an academic and scientific journal of quality acts as an encourager and diffuser of the critical social thought necessary to advance towards an anti-racist and anti-capitalist society.

One of the aims of this special issue is to promote contemporary research and reflections on race relations and their articulation with the social and political processes constituting neoliberalism, its material expressions, as well as the multiple determinations of structural racism in Brazilian society. To this end, an important initiative of this dossier was the strengthening of a national and international network of black and non-black researchers committed to facing racial inequalities in Brazil and the United States. In this way, we also intend to contribute to the politicization of the confrontation with racism, in its specific form of naturalization of social life, which requires its contextualization as a racial issue in social relations and the dissemination of knowledge that unveils its historical origins critically. That means to apprehend the dimension of anti-blackness in its composition, where we are confronted with thought-provoking reflections in the article Racism does not suffice: anti-blackness, the defining social and ontological dynamic of modernity, by João H. Costa Vargas. Believing racism is a foundational issue of Brazilian society still requires an approach based on the racialization of social relations that structures all dimensions of social life. From this point of view, the social phenomenon of "war on drugs" problematized in the articles Brazilian prohibitionist policy's racism: harm reduction as an anti-racist antidote, by Lucia Cristina dos Santos Rosa and Thais de Andrade Alves Guimarães, and War on drugs? by Daniela Ferrugem, refer to the fact...

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