El racismo del cuerpo: procesos psicosociológicos de discriminación escolar 1

Data analysis included inductive-deductive procedures. The analysis of the young people's testimonies, wrought with material and symbolic conditions of urban marginality, allows for the interpretation of certain corporal features that work as signs of humiliation and self-humiliation, particularly the skin. Racism of the body is expressed in the modes of school interaction where some groups believe themselves superior and subsume others who they consider to be of lesser social value. Faced with the feeling of exclusion and the denial of subjectivity, certain behaviors associated with violence towards others or practices of self-destruction may be triggered.