Racism is a complex phenomenon, denied and structurally present in society; it permeates all types of violence. This presentation aims to discuss some aspects of Brazilian racism. From a study made with Dr. Kenia Maia, eight body drawings of children from five to eleven years old, using the cartographic method developed by Guattari & Deleuze, two children’s graphic narratives of the research were brought up. The results are understood as part of a historical and collective process, where racism affects the construction of subjectivity and health in black children.
Dr. Maria Helena Zamora has a Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology and is a Professor at Pontifical University Catholic of Rio de Janeiro and an invited Fellow at The Institute for Advanced Study of African Renaissance Policies Ideas (ASARPI), with members from 11 countries, since 2020. She started a partnership with the Cognitive and Social Psychology and Vocational Development Institute, at Coimbra University, Portugal, in 2012, and was a consultant in the Community Intervention Laboratory (LInC), in the same center, in 2017. She is also an invited researcher at the research network SPPREAD International (Social Pedagogy, Practice Research and Development International), with members from the United Kingdom and Denmark, since 2018. She is a member of many institutions, including: the Coordination of the Sergio Vieira de Melo Chair at UNHCR, UN (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR), based at PUC-Rio, in 2017; a member of the State Committee for Preventing and Combating Torture RJ; and a member of the Youth Homicide Prevention Committee and the Ethics Committee at UNICEF, UN, in 2019.
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This lecture is part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium Series.