"In his work Racismo e liberdade, Professor Rogério da Palma explores how a process of macro-institutional rupture (the end of slavery and the consequent process of construction of black citizenship) had an impact on interpersonal relationships. Through the latter, white farmers, for example, managed to reestablish forms of dependence and control, maintaining inequality as the guiding principle of interactions with black men and women. After all, intimacy, far from mitigating subjection, can, on the contrary, reconstruct it on other levels. There is no way to think about the construction and contestation of black freedom, in the post-abolition period, without taking into account the remodeling of structural racism after the end of slavery. It is only possible to understand the process of construction of black (sub)citizenship by noting that it is established through a dispute (unequal, tense and diffuse), in which there is, on the one hand, an attempt to maintain racial hierarchies as a structuring element. of society (racism) and, on the other hand, the struggles for the affirmation of black freedom."--Translated from publisher's website.