“We have pushed the batuqueira away from us”

religious racism and its implications for the job market in a city in southern Rio Grande do Sul

Authors

  • Mariana Pinheiro de Souza Federal University of Pelotas
  • Mari Cristina de Freitas Fagundes Federal University of Pelotas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15536/thema.V23.2024.77-96.3478

Keywords:

religious racism, afro-brazilian religions, people management, job market, empirical research

Abstract

This article seeks to understand how religious racism interferes with the career trajectory of Afro-religious people living in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Through semi-structured interviews carried out during field research, we sought to interview different social actors and understand the implications of discriminatory practices throughout their professional careers. The article seeks to discuss institutional and structural racism, as it problematizes the capillarization of religious racism in different spheres, such as the job market. In addition, we point out how people management can be an important tool for creating grooves in the ideas of meritocracy and racial democracy that structure our society and strongly affect the job market.

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Author Biographies

Mariana Pinheiro de Souza, Federal University of Pelotas

Undergraduate student in Management Processes Technology at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel). She is a tutor in the Public Policies and Inequalities study group, which is currently studying race relations in Brazil. She is a researcher in the Transdisciplinary Group in Legal Research for a Sustainable Society, in the line of research: Intersectionalities and disruptive technologies in (and for) education. She is interested in research on Afro-Brazilian religions and ethnic-racial relations.

Mari Cristina de Freitas Fagundes, Federal University of Pelotas

PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Paraíba. Master's in Sociology from the Federal University of Pelotas. Specialist in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure from Complexo Educacional Damásio de Jesus. Graduated in Law from Faculdade Anhanguera de Pelotas. Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Socio-Organizational Sciences at the Federal University of Pelotas. Her research focuses on the Sociology of Violence and the Criminal Justice System, articulating concepts such as governmentality, necropolitics, whiteness and structural racism, as well as empirical research in this field. In this sense, she has a special focus on qualitative research.

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Published

2024-02-29

How to Cite

PINHEIRO DE SOUZA, M. P. de; CRISTINA DE FREITAS FAGUNDES, M. C. de F. “We have pushed the batuqueira away from us”: religious racism and its implications for the job market in a city in southern Rio Grande do Sul. Revista Thema, Pelotas, v. 23, n. 1, p. 77–96, 2024. DOI: 10.15536/thema.V23.2024.77-96.3478. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ifsul.edu.br/index.php/thema/article/view/3478. Acesso em: 17 dec. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2024)

Section

Ciências Sociais Aplicadas

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