Death policies: Covid-19 and the labyrinths of the black city

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the dynamics of public policies in the scope of gender and race in Brazil, taking the covid-19 pandemic as a scenario. Considering the vulnerability of the black in relation to the observation of the rules of social isolation, the article asks about the scope of the public policies adopted to protect this population. Considering an urban spatial geography based on lethality projects, there is an investment in the protection of the white city, in the terms proposed by Frantz Fanon, despite the need to protect blacks. Thus, the black city is understood as a woman-city, in which the debauchery of the state's terror can be perpetrated without question. At the opposite pole of these territories, there are private properties linked to real estate speculation protected by the pacts of the elites. These properties could serve as a shelter for thousands of people in need in the context of the pandemic. The genocide of blacks, therefore, is also taking shape in the concreteness of urban racial segregation in the face of the pandemic. Regarding the methodology, the article is based on the notion of feminism proposed by Lélia Gonzalez, consolidating a narrative that accesses the object of investigation through the necessary overlap of gender, race, class and sexuality.