Questão racial e Serviço Social: desafios e perspectivas para a formação profissional

Abstract

When considering racism as a foundational element of capitalism and inseparable from the process of maintaining capital, this paper will analyze the importance of incorporating studies of these factors into the academic training in social work to better understand the process of the totality of the social reality of Black and Indigenous populations. The research is based on the socio-historical formation of Brasil and its relationship with the development of the capitalist mode of production and its hegemony, in order to understand how racism originated in the country and became embedded in the process of rooting and naturalization through the myth of racial democracy. Based on the curricular analysis of the Social Work program in two public universities affiliated with the Brazilian Association for Education and Research in Social Work (ABEPSS), the study will investigate the relationship between the ABEPSS Curriculum Guidelines and the presence of ethnic-racial debates in the course syllabi. This process will be organized to understand the particularities of black and indigenous populations, and how the academic training in Social Work is understood in relation to serving this population.