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In the dispositif of raciality, the agonistic between racist power and the resistance to it is enacted. This article takes up the Movement of Negritude and its repercussions to trace the transformations this dispositif has undergone until reaching the racial literacy practices that produce subjects critical to the naturalization of racialization. Along the way, it introduces the concept of whiteness and the Critical Whiteness Studies in an introductory way. Furthermore, it relates racial literacy to Foucault's concept of techniques of the self in order to highlight both the characteristics of practice and exercise shared by both and the effects of subjectivation produced. Throughout the article, concepts from Emile Benveniste's thought are used to illustrate how intersubjectivity plays a fundamental role in subjectivity production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]