O racismo como gatilho do genocídio da juventude negra periférica e a construção de resistências

Abstract

The present research sought to perform, initially, through a bibliographical and documentary review, a study on the genocide of black youth in the urban periphery, hypothesis that this phenomenon is associated with the historical process of racial violence that crosses the colonization and formation of the capitalist system. This process, aligned with the capitalist structure and a necropolitics, intensifies the negative visibility of black youth in contemporary times, since it understands and perpetuates the idea of the black as an inferior race, thus being capable of elimination. Along the way we try to understand the bases of the relations of violence that were established from the beginning between the colonizer and the colonized, that goes through the construction of a rationality of Eurocentric superiority and that contributed significantly to the racist structuring of the capitalist mode of production. Subsequently, we made reflections on how racism deepens social and economic inequalities, as well as contributing to the increase of criminalized peripheral territories and as the system uses techniques of Necropolitics and the State of Exception as a device for disposal of bodies considered disposable. At the last moment of the work we reviewed some studies on genocide of the black population, specifically the black youth of urban periphery. We undertook a brief historical resumption of the black movement in Brazil and its essential role in the fight against genocide, exemplifying the international movement Black Lives Matter (Black Lives Matter) and its influence in the country. We conclude this dissertation by presenting an exploratory research of some movements, groups and anti-racist collectives active in the city of Juiz de Fora - MG, which act on different fronts of the fight against racism. We conclude that racism is structural, so that it structures the capitalist system of production, thus influencing all our relations in society. It is an intrinsic part of our socio-historical formation since the colonization process, carrying out, throughout history and today, the genocide process of the non-white population, especially the peripheral black youth. However, we highlight that there are forms of resistance and struggle that seek to overcome policies of death perpetrated by the capitalist state, affirming the search for another project of society that is not based on any kind of exploitation, discrimination, inferiorization and elimination of lives.