2024-06-122024-06-122020-12RATTS, Alex. A questão étnica e/ou racial no espaço: a diferença no território e a geografia. Boletim Paulista de Geografia, São Paulo, n. 104, p. 1–22, 2020. Disponível em: https://publicacoes.agb.org.br/boletim-paulista/article/view/2134. Acesso em: 7 jun. 2024.e- 2447-0945http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br//handle/ri/24601This paper is based on a group of studies, researchs, readings, observations and interventions. The main aim is to problematize the epistemological place of the ethnic and racial question in geographic science based on its modernity-coloniality and considering the Brazilian society in the world-system - focusing on black collectivities, quilombolas and indigenous peoples. I initially approached geography as a modern-colonial science, whose narrative of formation has little connection with colonization and colonialism and, even less, with the racial issue. Next, I make considerations about race and ethnicity within the framework of the modern-colonial world-system, the focus is given on French authors. In the sequence, I indicate two tendencies of Brazilian geographers: 1. Those that glimpsed the ethnic and/or racial issue, but not discussed it; 2. Those who work directly with the themes and identified themselves with the field of research. Finally, I summarise some points to think about the issues of difference - ethnic and racial - as an agenda for geographic studies for social transformations and epistemological displacements.porAcesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Questão etnicorracialDiferençaTerritórioGeografiaEthnic and racial issueDifferenceTerritoryGeographyArtigo