Abstract
To recognize the actions related to race/color developed in the care process of the black child and adolescent population of a Psychosocial Care Center for children and adolescents in Brazil. This is a study with a qualitative approach focusing on the three-dimensional racism framework. Data were collected through active medical records and interviews with reference professionals. The results were categorized and thematized through content analysis and the following themes were found: typology of child violence, identification of racism, the school, access to black culture and representativeness. This study obtained ethical approval. The race/color question in the face of violation of fundamental rights of black children/adolescents contributes to the understanding of racism as a social determinant of mental health. Actions to empower the black population include the insertion of the race-color question as an analytical and procedural category in the Singular Therapeutic Projects, as an integral practice of multiprofessional teams work process. It is necessary to invest persistently in the identification and qualification of actions and systematic discussions to face the psychosocial effects of racism.
Highlights
Assuming that black children and adolescents suffer double discrimination, due to the stigma of madness and skin color, this study focuses on how the service faces the psychosocial effects of racism, recognizing the children’s CAPS as citizenship devices, capable of acting to confront these inequities[15]
There were no reports identified in the medical records about stimuli for Afro games, visits to Afro-centered cultural spaces, and/or the use of black dolls within the Centro de Atención Psicosocial infantojuvenil en Brasil (CAPSij), black public figures/heroes/singers/“famous teens” among the objects used for actions in the PTS, and participation in black-themed event/party, critical actions and interventions to combat and confront racism in its personal and interpersonal dimensions . [17]
In 1996, the question race/color was included in the mortality and live births information systems, evidencing racial inequities in the black population’s living conditions[19]
Summary
After the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution, children and adolescents became citizens with rights, detailed in Law No 8.069/90, which originated the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA). Article 3 of ECA assigns to everyone the duty to respect this population with the highest priority, putting them safe from any form of discrimination or oppression, including racial discrimination[1–3]. The current inequities regarding access to rights experienced by the black population have their roots in the colonial structure of exploitation, violence, exclusion, epistemicide, and extermination of values and traditions of indigenous peoples, which leads to complex marginalization, social inequalities, and vulnerabilities[4]. The difficulty of creating guidelines to combat racism in Brazil is based on the myth of racial democracy, in the denial of its existence, with extreme resistance to the naming of this social phenomenon, which establishes another, called whiteness. Its definition is the position of systematized privileges, of “material and symbolic resources, initially generated by colonialism and imperialism, and that are maintained and preserved in contemporary times”, linking racism in Brazil “to status and phenotype”(5, . p.84)
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