Historical sociology and interpretation of racism in Brazil

This article examines the contributions of so-called historical or processual sociolog y to the analysis of racism in Brazil, based on four central concepts: revolution, reproduction, forma-tion and event. The central argument is that the processual analysis of events, in the different approaches selected, offers some alternatives for tackling the main obstacle faced in the field of the sociolog y of racism: jointly explaining the formation of racial inequalities and their social production in the interaction and sociability between agents. It is suggested that the specific objective of historical sociolog y in this field of research is the racialization of the social experi-ence of time, that is, the constitution of racialized temporalities.