The topicality of Guerreiro Ramos:

Development, racism and coloniality in today's Brazil

Abstract

In 2021 Brazil is going through a very critical period, with the rise of a group of a extrem right, represented by President Jair Bolsonaro, who in theory would implement neoliberal policies led by Minister Paulo Guedes. At the same time, since 2020 the country has been facing one of its worst health and economic crises, with a regrettable number of victims of COVID-19. It is also a year marked by violence related to racism, with an intensification of murders committed by the police apparatus, especially of the black population in Brazil. Given this situation, nothing seems more pertinent than recovering the ideas of sociologist Guerreiro Ramos in order to understand today's Brazil, since he was an author who in an original way deepened the themes of development, racism and coloniality. The central hypothesis is that the Brazilian social, economic and political situation lacks a deep, critical and original analysis in the search for the transformation of this tragic situation that the country is going through, with Guerreiro Ramos being a reference that has been little employ on this regard.