THE DISCOURSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PERPETUATION OF THE INDIFFERENCE AND SUBORDINATION OF THE RACIALIZED SUBJECT

Abstract

This research seeks to understand the role of the hegemonic  discourse of human rights in the production of difference and subordination between subjects in society. The hypothesis with which we work is that the hegemonic logic, of  liberal and individualist matrix, which uses differences to extract inferiority, relativizing and grading humanity, establishes hierarchies and  classifications among subjects, which sustain routine exclusions in modern society, especially those based on race. Thus, anchored in decolonial
thinking, especially in the contributions of Quijano, Dussel and Mignolo, the aim is to identify how the aforementioned logic establishes hierarchies and social classifications, based on a rational and racist discourse, the result of colonial difference. In the end, it is concluded that this discourse is selective, not attributing to all the same characteristics, therefore, disregarding their intrinsic equality, culminating not only in the construction of a narrative based on stereotypes, but also in the classification of the subjects, that reflects in the support and in the very belief on the part of those marginalized of the the narratives about their supposed inferiority and need for subordination, which sustain, in the end, racism in modern times. For such purposes, methodologically speaking, a bibliographical
research is carried out, following the deductive method of approach and the analytical-descriptive method of analysis.
Key-words: Human Rights. Discourse. Difference. Subordination. Racism.