About

The book will be presented by Silvia Rodríguez Maeso (editor of the book, CES), Danilo Cardoso (EducAR Group; PhD candidate in Anthropology - ISCTE/NOVA), Cláudia Silva (Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH and Instituto Superior Técnico, Integrated Researcher at ITI-LARSyS) and José Semedo Fernandes (Lawyer).

Synopsis
The debate on racism in Portugal is linked to the recycling of mythologies that update the legacies of colonialism and racial enslavement. The disputes around the intentionality and nature of acts or episodes - «is it really racism?» -, of the non-racist credentials of white people - «racist, me?!, but I have black friends» - or of the prioritisation of social problems submitted to institutional intervention - «juvenile delinquency in African and Roma ghettos» - exemplify the sedimentation of racism and of political solutions that prevent us from confronting it from the approach of racial justice.

O Estado do Racismo em Portugal [The State of Racism in Portugal] (Tinta-da-China, 2021) aims to contribute to the decoding of institutional racism, by identifying and analysing the routine practices that promote anti-Black and anti-Roma racial order in various contexts of Portuguese society: in the implementation of legislation to combat discrimination and racial hatred, in security policies and policing, in the devices for the protection of «children at risk», in the media and in the responses to precariousness and residential segregation.

The texts seek to discuss anti-racist and liberating political horizons.