Prejudice and Discrimination as Expressions of Violence

• Main Authors: Lourdes Bandeira, Analía Soria Batista
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2002-01-01
• Series: Revista Estudos Feministas
• Subjects: preconceito; discriminação; exclusão; violência
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/9549

This essay examines the construction of prejudice and the visibility of the ensuing discriminations associated with the emergence of differences, be it through the affirmation and manipulation of the conditions of difference or through their denial and dissimulation. In both cases, there is a lack of recognition of, or disrespect for, differences that is constitutive of new patterns of violence. This essay builds a bridge between discrimination and violence, emphasizing the diverse forms of discrimination and exclusion, which include: the juridical parameters related to co-existence and re-cognition; the social sciences approach to the construction of differences/non-similarities; the conceptual framework of the category prejudice‘ and its derivative forms of discrimination and social exclusion; the mechanisms of prejudice; and the difference-prejudice relation, image and rationalization of the Other .