Abstract
This work is part of the collective effort to promote a rereading of Brazilian political and social thought from authors and authors whose reflections were historically silenced due to their ethnic-racial and/or gender belongings. More specifically, we start from the thought of Lélia de Almeida Gonzalez (1935-1994) to reflect on the myth of racial democracy as structuring a nation project in Brazil. The guiding question here is: how does the notion of Améfrica Ladina, as the foundation of a new reading of the formation of Brazilian society, complexcriticism of the myth of racial democracy? The hypothesis to be developed is that the differential of the author’s criticism lies in the identification, still in the 1970s and 1980s, of a triple form of discrimination between race, class and gender that brutally marginalizes black women - and that cannot be silenced in the understanding of brazil’s national formation. Moreover, the intellectual in question still presents the definition of racism denial as a particular aspect of the myth of racial democracy.
Keywords:
Améfrica Ladina; racial democracy; Lélia de Almeida Gonzalez; black women