RELATIONS OF RACE, CLASS AND SEX, AND THEIR OVERLAP

A conversation with Heleieth Saffioti and Danièle Kergoat

Abstract

In this text, I discuss the approaches of two contemporary sociologists who take into account the articulation of gender, race and class inequalities. They are: Heleieth Saffioti and Danièle Kergoat. Here I present the idea of ​​the patriarchy-racism-capitalism skein, developed by Saffioti, and the perspective of the consubstantiality of social relations of sex, race and class, coined by Kergoat. The objective is to point out differences in the thoughts of the two authors, and also to reveal points of convergence that may exist between these two views. Their analyzes of social reality can help us in the important task of thinking about the challenges posed, especially in countries like Brazil, still haunted by its slavery past and extreme discrepancies regarding gender, race and class.