Os reveses da ausência: as "questões raciais" na produção acadêmica do Serviço Social no Brasil (1936-2013)

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: León Díaz, Ruby Esther
• Orientador(a): Rodrigues, Maria Lucia
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Serviço Social
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Serviço Social - Produção Acadêmica; Questões raciais; Literatura acadêmica no Serviço Social
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Social Service - Production of academic; Racial issues; Academic literature in the Social Service
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19433

We consider that the small or lesser production of studies about “racial issues” in the Brazilian Social Service deserves a certain measure of questioning. Claimed by segments of Social Service as a relevant field of study for the enhancement and acknowledgment of the service users and even the profile of the social worker subjects, it does not achieve as much notoriety as the other areas of social and human sciences. The goal of this thesis is to analyze the route and the expression of the “racial issues” theme in academic literature from a historical and contemporary perspective, within the 1936-2010 period. We have also prioritized the analysis of how the Social Service academic environment inhibits and/or promotes, motivates and/or hesitates initiatives in the production of research and studies about “racial issues”. We sought to examine how the “racial issues” are studied in the Social Service field, which topics are featured in this literature and the theoretical references most commonly used for the study. The analysis covered the first term papers from the first Social Service school founded in Brazil, articles in specialized journals, studies presented in scientific events, theses and dissertations of the area, using the multidimensional method as a reference and articulating the quantitative and the qualitative aspects. We conclude that, in spite of its historical insertion in the career literature, the theme is not adequately valued or recognized in the field of Social Service. This fact may be explained due to the bond between Social Service and the hegemonic analytic perspectives that restrict the fields of thought and professional development to studying the social impact of the labor-capital relations. This bond also erases the history prior to the Marxist determination as the only critical theory for Social Service. Therefore, the existence of the first documents that analyzed the “racial issues” theme is eliminated, resulting in an idea of total absence which also suppresses the contributions of the social workers who, since the 1960s, introduced the theme in the field. Paradoxically, the idea of absence also enables and encourages the authors of contemporary literature about “racial issues” to produce thought-provoking essays and studies in the field. Authors, in a subtle way, present inflections in the closed discourses of Social Service; such inflections are presented by means of a certain fusion between the researching subject and the researched subject, producing, sometimes, tensions within an academic environment restricted to categories that do not always explain the identity-related experience of the black subjects