CONTRIBUTIONS OF VIRGINIA LEONE BICUDO AND NEUSA SANTOS SOUZA TO AN ANTI-RACIST BRAZILIAN PSYCHOLOGY

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the theoretical contributions of Virgínia Leone Bicudo and Neusa Santos Souza to the field of Social Psychology, as well as to reflect on how a certain scientific knowledge circulation policy acts in order to resist these contributions. Methodologically, this article is guided by a qualitative meta-analysis. The results indicate that it is urgent to denaturalize the non-presence of the black population in spaces of knowledge production, to bring to light their intellectual productions and, also, their experiences as active subjects of history, in order to transform this scenario and, above all, to an effective democratization of universities and knowledge. Therefore, it is concluded that Bicudo and Souza's productions can be a resource to think about the emergence of the construction of an Anti-racist Social Psychology, breaking with colonialist matrices and Manichean logic.