Attempting to Understand the Concept of Race | Politics as the Agent Responsible for Creating and Maintaining the Concept of Race

Politics is a complex field and understanding it requires in-depth hermeneutic analysis, linking actions and reflections from various empirical and epistemological strands, because nothing in this space can be taken as palpable, much less as naive; every situation presented and kept under constant discussion has deeper, darker and, more often than not, more obscure objectives. The concept of race is no different and, when we look at history, we realize that the term arose at the height of the discussion about the end of the slave regime, driven by the occurrence of the 2nd Industrial Revolution (19th century). This already makes it clear that all the heated discussion about the equality of human beings had nothing to do with feelings of value, but rather with economic interests that were being hindered by the permanence of a regime that kept the majority of workers crushed by misery, since they did not receive any money for their work.