Faire face au racisme en France et au Brésil: de la condamnation morale à l'aide aux victimes. (French)

Fighting against racism in France and Brazil: From moral condemnation to victims' support. (English)

FRANCE; BRAZIL

The Brazilian racial democracy and the French Republican model have determined specific conceptions of racism and different ways to tackle it. Examining racism through these two political contexts leads to raise the question of the link between its legal, political, social and personal déefinitions. On both sides of the Atlantic, perspectives on racism have made victims passive, keeping them away from the problem. Experiences of racism and racial discriminations have remained in the shadow of history or have melted in the social issue. As time goes by, many great mutations related to the way of thinking differences in Brazil and France have influenced the debate on racism. Public autorities are under increasing pressure to handle the problem and to pay more attention to lived experience of racial discriminations. These evolutions show that the political culture of both countries can no longer contain the fight against racism crossed over global to personal conceptions which challenge the State's action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'idée de démocratie raciale au Brésil et le modèle républicain en France constituent la toile de fond des mouvements de composition et de décomposition de la question du racisme à l' ™uvre dans ces deux pays. Ces formules consacrées ne sont pas sans liens avec la manière par laquelle on se représente le racisme et façonnent des impératifs quant à la manière de le combattre. La réflexion croisée sur l'évolution des formes de reconnaissance du racisme au Brésil et en France, que propose cet article, permet notamment de revisiter des conceptions juridiques, politiques, sociales et le vécu personnel qui lui sont attachés à différentes périodes. Des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, les modes de compréhension du racisme ont longtemps fait peser une sorte de déterminisme sur les victimes en les maintenant quelque part à distance du problème. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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