Olhar para ver e não reproduzir: um relato de experiência sobre branquitude e racismo institucional

Abstract

Medicine in Brazil is traditionally occupied by self-declared white individuals, but the population, mostly served and completely dependent on the public health system for their healthcare, consists of self-declared black people. However, the black population faces more barriers to accessing healthcare, being less served both quantitatively and qualitatively. Despite the creation of public policies aimed at equal access to education and health in the country, such as the quota policy and the national health policy for the black population, we still observe a gap in these fields.These initiatives have not resulted in complete equity in access to education and healthcare in the country. This is due to centuries of institutionalized racism, a product of coloniality, which operates through the maintenance of whiteness in positions of power and generates illness among the black population. The study aims to report the experience of a family and community medicine resident in the Jacarezinho community faced with a mental health problem. This case was understood as a symptom of institutional racism whose perception was possible through the anti-racist and critical studies of whiteness proposed during the residency program, which also culminated in a personal process of racialization throughout this period.