The word is.. Genocide: The continuity of racist practices in Brazil

Abstract

The practices of extermination in Brazil have been directed at the poor, but especially for black poor. From the analysis of the international legal definition of genocide, we undertake an investigation about the senses produced over and for this population on a daily basis. We take as a methodological strategy the bricolage, seeking to capture in actions, what discourse intends to deny. In several fragments presented, taken from common scenes shared through culture and history, we can understand the logic of disqualification imposed on blacks in Brazil, as well as an institutional logic that points to this population as a source of evil to be eliminated. In addition to result in a consented elimination of some people, such practices also imposes an everyday disqualification that produces other effects: different forms of death within life, either by silencing or by imposition, towards a place of naturalized devaluation.