Name: DÉRIK BEZERRA MACHADO
Publication date: 06/02/2026
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| DIOGO VALENÇA DE AZEVEDO COSTA | Examinador Externo |
| GUSTAVO MOURA DE CAVALCANTI MELLO | Presidente |
| MARIA HELENA ELPIDIO DE JESUS | Examinador Interno |
| MAURO LUIS IASI | Examinador Externo |
| MONICA PAULINO DE LANES | Examinador Interno |
Pages
Summary: This thesis focuses on Florestan Fernandes's work on the "racial question," primarily based on his 1964 work, The integration of black people into class society. More than a mere review, we will engage in dialogue with this important book, taking into account the historical and theoretical conditions that permeate the author and the work. From this perspective, we will consider the object of study within the framework of Marxist and Marxist interpretation. Having established this, we begin by demystifying the genesis of the capitalist mode of production, anchored in so-called primitive accumulation and its colonial matrix, based on the enslavement of Black people, to explain what we understand as the ideology of racism. Subsequently, we will situate Fernandes, his formulation, and the professionalization of sociology in the years preceding and following the business-military coup, as well as the main socioeconomic dilemmas of his time, such as developmentalism, underdevelopment, integration, and dependent capitalism. Having established this first part, we will delve into an immanent reading of the work The Integration of the Black Person into Class Society, from 1964. Next, we will revisit some of Fernandes' reflections and inflections, drawing on the author himself and his main interlocutor, Otávio Ianni. Finally, based on all the theoretical framework developed, we will explain the "racial question" and the determinations that place it, in our hypothesis, as a process inherent to the genesis, constitution, production, and reproduction of the capitalist mode of production in general, and particularly in the Brazilian slave-owning social formation, expressing itself as inseparable from the "social question," more precisely as its “hard core”.
