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Sistematic Review about Work, Racism and Psychic Suffering in ihe Brazilian Context

Abstract

This systematic review sought to show how the academic literature has been treating the relationship between work, racism, and psychic suffering in the perspective of the Black worker. This review searched for articles by using the descriptors ‘racism’, ‘work’, ‘psychic suffering’, and ‘mental health’ on the databases CAPES, SciELO, PePSIC, LILACS, and Index Psi. Twenty-one articles from different research fields - Sociology, Politics, Education, Psychology, Social Service, Literature, and Linguistics - published up from 1990 comprised the final sample: 12 empiric and nine theoretical. After a thematic analysis, the articles were subdivided into four categories of analysis. Only two articles addressed the association between racism and psychic suffering on intersubjective labor relations. Some articles approached the racial discrimination suffered by Black professionals on the teaching area, whereas the others addressed themes such as the difficulties faced by Black people in entering the labor market; racial income inequality; disadvantages on social mobility for the Black worker; gender and race as aggravating factors for discrimination in the workplace; and strategies to face and overcome social and labor-related disadvantages. Our results indicate a gap and a fecund territory for investigating the psychic demands rising from the labor relations surrounding the Black individual.

Keywords:
Racism; Intersubjective Labor Relations; Psychic Suffering; Systematic Review

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