ABSTRACT
In 1998 and 1999 respectively, Pierre Bourdieu and Loїc Wacquant published a controversial, highly disseminated essay in French, English, and Portuguese in order to condemn the ‘imperial’ presence of U.S. American scholars and philanthropic foundations dealing with racism and anti-racism in Brazil. According to Bourdieu and Wacquant, this presence represents an “epistemic violence” associated with the “diffusion of the U.S. racial doxa within the Brazilian academic field at the level of both representations and practices” (46).
