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- Title
THE HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE BLACK PEOPLE AS A TARGET OF MASS INCARCERATION IN BRAZIL.
- Authors
Melo Gomes, Marcus Alan; Trindade dos Santos, Renan Daniel
- Abstract
Brazil experienced one of the most enduring historical processes of enslavement of blacks, which extended from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century, when there was the formal abolition of slavery. In the face of the abrupt rupture, it is not difficult to conclude that many sectors of Brazilian society have inherited the mentality of slavery, after all it has been almost four centuries of social and economic formation from the enslavement of black people. The penal system, analyzed here from prison, previously represented by the slave quarters where blacks were punished by their lords, has not escaped this phenomenon. Later that punishment passed was monopolized by the State, criminalizing freed blacks and still slaves for the practice of begging, vagrancy, capoeira. Nowadays this slavery heritage is reflected in the Brazilian prison population, of which 66.7% are of black origin. Based on these findings, this article discusses the problem: Is it possible to point to a historical construction of blacks in the Brazilian penal system? Marx, Ianni, Schwarcz, Souza, Zaffaroni, Flauzina, among others, were used as a theoretical framework to point out the historical and racialized selectivity of the Brazilian penal system. Therefore, the research took a bibliographic form, especially from the Brazilian Yearbook of Public Security of 2020, which points out the population growth of black people in the country.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; MASS incarceration; MARX, Karl, 1818-1883; BLACK people; SLAVERY; VAGRANCY; PRISON population; BRAZILIAN history; WHITE supremacy; SLAVE trade
- Publication
Quaestio Iuris (QI), 2022, Vol 15, Issue 3, p1225
- ISSN
1807-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/rqi.2022.59784