Final Considerations
摘要
This concluding chapter synthesizes the study’s central argument: racial perception is a psychocultural phenomenonPsychocultural Phenomenon, not an innate visual capacity. Drawing on a single case study with Jorge, a congenitally blind participant, it demonstrates that vision, while influential, is not essential for perceiving race. Using the concept of racialized body imageRacialized Body Image as a unit of analysis, the chapter outlines three levels of racialization—race as mark, originMark and Origin, and social regulatorSocial Regulation—showing how these interrelations shape identity and social interaction. It critiques the visuocentric paradigmVisuocentric Paradigm that treats phenotype as self-evident, arguing instead that racial perception emerges through language, social practices, and cultural signification. The chapter situates this framework within Semiotic Cultural Psychology, emphasizing the inseparability of somatic, psychic, historical, and social dimensions. Ultimately, it calls for denaturalizing the sensory “obviousness” of race to challenge essentialist assumptions and inspire practices that reconfigure racial boundaries as historically contingent and socially constructed.