Life Project, Raciality Device, and Anti-Racist Practice: Professional Experience Report in Socioeducation

Abstract

This paper is an experience report aimed at presenting a process of professional construction that seeks to become anti-racist and is organized around the construction of life projects.The overrepresentation of the Black population in  socio-educational institutions with restriction of freedom is due to the structuring of the raciality device, which conditions precariousness and has impacts on the subjectivity of these adolescents. In this sense, the life project construction strategies need to build resistance to the processes incidental to Brazilian structural racism. This article, therefore, presents action strategies stemming from reflections and implications of a Black psychologist in the socio-educational context, who seeks to contemplate racial reality in his practice. Thus, we consider it fundamental for professionals to develop proposals that reclaim the cognizant nature of the population served, as well as promote contact with their own ancestry and community resources that foster a reconnection with their own family, community, and society.