Racism as a "virtual social identity”

Abstract

The present work intends from readings by authors like Thomas E. Skidmore, Kabengele Munanga, Mariza Corrêa, Amanda Braga and others, to contextualize the historical period where racialist theories developed, and the implications of these theories on the black population. Thus, the work intends to analyze through the concept of stigma of the American sociologist Erving Goffman as the racialist theories developed during the second half of the nineteenth century, collaborated for the corporal, moral and tribal stigmatization of the black people, causing what Goffman will call of "virtual social identity" to the detriment of "real social identity.