Abstract
This article examines the racial tensions of post-abolition and the first decades of the twentieth century, in order to understand their links with the emergence of Social Work. The aim is to demonstrate that the racial issue was constituted (and constitutes) the knot that at the base of social issues, and to unleash it is an urgent task to build a world without capitalist exploitation of class and without oppression of any nature.
Keywords:
Social issues; Ethnic-racial relations; Capitalism; Social Work