Infâncias negras e genocídio: uma análise da realidade Brasileira

Abstract

Children and teenagers in contemporaneity are categorized as subjects of rights, this fact only occurred since the enactment of the Federal Constitution of 1988, in its 277th article. Before that period, they were seem as small adults, not taking consideration of their intense development period. Among the childhood category, unfortunately Brazil has an abyss of inequality that shatters the childhoods and divides it between those that deserve protection and a dignified life and those who are left to live in subconditions, or not even that most of the times. The last mentioned ones are people of color. The black childhoods, sadly, still suffer from the remnants of country established under a capitalist concentration that was developed through the selling of black bodies and the slavering of them. The present work aims to analyze how the structural racism intrinsic to this system results in consequences such as the criminalization of poverty, that directly affects those black children, causing a process of genocide that is perpetuated in the lack of access of fundamental basic rights and in the high rates of violence against those childhoods, deepening a social/racial inequality that has lasted since the colonization times. This is an exploratory research of quantitative and qualitative natures based on documental and bibliographical research and review of the literature on the subject. The results indicate that, despite the advances in politics aimed at childhood, structural racism as an intrinsic element to the development of capital prevents, in this form of sociability, the leveling of treatment directed at multiple existing childhoods, and especially those that are crossed by the category of class and race.