Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FLADMYLLA OHANA DE SOUZA LEITE

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STUDENT : FLADMYLLA OHANA DE SOUZA LEITE
DATE: 02/12/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Auditório D do CCHLA
TITLE:

Banal evil and structural racism

KEY WORDS:

Racial contract; banal evil; anti-black racism; white ignorance

PAGES: 85
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: Ética
SUMMARY:

This research seeks to analyze structural racism from the concept of Racial Contract, formulated by Charles Wade Mills, establishing a counterpoint with Hannah Arendt's reflection on Banal Evil. Our goal is not only to understand how the social contract functions as a tool for the perpetuation of structural racism, but also to demonstrate that the concept of banal evil conceived by Arendt is insufficient to encompass the nature of the evil practiced in anti-black racism. We intend to examine the relationship of power and privilege that emerges from the racial contract, in which white people establish their terms according to their interests, while non-white people are systematically relegated to subordinate positions. This process has historically manifested itself through the imposition of norms by those who invaded territories, erased cultures, and rewrote histories, sustaining various forms of extermination throughout the construction of society. In analyzing the case of Adolf Eichmann, Arendt conceived of banal evil as a phenomenon in which individuals commit atrocities not out of ideological conviction, but out of bureaucratic conformity and the absence of critical thinking. However, we argue that this formulation is insufficient to explain the evil that operates in anti-black racism, since it is not the result of mere obedience to orders, but of a conscious and historically consolidated structure of oppression and racial hierarchization. To support this investigation, we will use texts by authors such as Kathryn Sophia Belle, Abdias do Nascimento, Sueli Carneiro and Lélia González, among others, who discuss structural racism and the black question. Thus, the central purpose of this study is to demonstrate how the racial contract sustains structural racism within a political system that deprives society of knowledge about its true origins, while questioning the limits of the concept of banal evil to understand the complexity and depth of evil inherent in anti-black racism.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.554.901-** - FEDERICO BOCCACCINI - UFRN
Interno - 1397100 - PAULO EDUARDO BODZIAK JUNIOR
Externa à Instituição - FERNANDA ALVES DA COSTA
Externo à Instituição - HALINA MACEDO LEAL - PUCPR