Legal education; Legal Epistemology; Racism; Epistemicide.

Law is structured by racism and is indispensable for the reproduction of racial violence. Despite this, little is known about the place of legal education in this dialectical and complex relationship. Thus, this work aims to understand how racism manifests itself in legal education. Due to the exploratory nature of the theme, the methodology was based on the Constructivist Grounded Theory, which guided both the choice of sources of information and the analyses. The sources used were: narratives of two black professors from law courses, based on semi-structured interviews; the Final Report of the Commission for the Study and Adequacy of the Political-Pedagogical Project of the Law Course of UEFS to the Racial Debate; and the Final Paper "The performance of the Coletivo de Assessoria Jurídica Popular Luiz Gama/UNEB (Juazeiro/BA) in the light of article 207 of the Federal Constitution of 1988", associated with personal reflections about my formative process. All the institutions hosting the research are located in the Brazilian Northeast. In addition, I conducted a literature review on the theme, with searches in thesis and dissertation banks and in the platforms Scielo and Portal de Periódicos CAPES. Some of the sensitizing concepts are "education as freedom practice" by Paulo Freire and bell hooks, "structural racism" by Silvio Almeida, and "Law as legitimate social organization of freedom" by Roberto Lyra Filho. The results indicate four analytical categories for thinking about racism in legal education: "constructing racial identity", "feeling racism", "constructing worldview", and "interpellating legal epistemicide". In general, they articulate subjective elements – related to the cognition, affect and behavior of professors and students – and objective elements – related to the institutional structure of the courses. Thus, racism in legal education has emerged as a multifaceted problem, but one that needs to be faced by institutions in an urgent and committed manner.