ANALYSIS OF THE SELF-CONCEPT OF YOUNG BLACK PEOPLE AGAINST THE IMPACTS OF RACISM: AN ETHNIC-RACIAL STUDY
Self-concept; Racism; Social Identity Theory; Ethnic-Racial.
Nowadays, it is commonplace for some (especially those interested and/or affected) to think about the consequences of racism within ethnic-racial relations. Nowadays, racism, derived from slavery, is being experienced, acquiring new outlines, contours, and forms of expression. The question is: how do young blacks perceive themselves in the construction of self-concept, according to their social interaction and experience in the forms of expression of racism? The present study aims to analyze the relationship between the self-concept of young blacks and the beliefs that these young people have about ethnic-racial relations. To this end, the Social Identity Theory (SIT) is proposed to deepen the study, based on the three postulates of Tajfel and Turner (1979), elucidating that the individual uses the social categories to which he perceives himself as belonging. In short, it is to evidence the studies that encompass the theme that discuss the impacts of racism on social identity, as well as the analysis of the self-concept of young blacks, corroborating a historical construct still in force. Through these interpretations, it is up to the present study to provide conceptions of the understanding that this young black population has of itself, promoting an elucidation of a social arrangement in face of racism and its ways of operating in Brazil.