Da senzala ao sistema prisional: a institucionalização do racismo no Brasil

Abstract

This research regards the attempt of comprehending the problematics and ambivalences of the Brazilian prison system from the racial perspective taking into consideration that the majority of the prison population is made up of black people. The racial issue in this sense was a relevant element for the analysis of institutional practices in Brazilian prisons. Thus, in order to comprehend the racial issue in Brazil, it was essential to analyse how the historical development of black people took place in the country. For such thing, a historical trajectory from the period of slavery to the current days was carried out, presenting the symbolic representation of the black body, the functioning of the slavery system, the abolition of slavery, the sorts of racist expressions and how they took place in Brazil after the abolition of slavery with the establishment of laws which hindered Brazil’s black population development, with the emergence of the Scientific racism and the institutional racism and, therefore, relating the slavery influences to the racism in the Brazilian prison system institutional practices, from this, connecting to the discussions surrounding the selectivity of the penal system, state of emergency, Necropolitics and bio-necropolitics. This research also presents the importance of the linkage between psychology and the Anti-prison and Anti-racist struggle, as a way of break away from discriminatory mindsets, practices and human rights violation, Furthermore, this research presents a discussion about Penal Alternatives and Penal Abolitionism.