Racismo institucional: o Rio de Janeiro e o estado democrático de direito do Brasil no fundo do poço (2019 - 2020)

Abstract

In this research, we will approach institutional racism and, as a result, police violence, as a legacy of slavery strongly present in the ostensible practices of the military police in Brazil. To this end, we observed in the statistics the high rates of violence, specifically, the homicides linked to the Military Police of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, during the years 2019 and 2020. The project considered as object of study, the deaths of youth of the city of Rio de Janeiro — RJ, specifically, to the peripheral black youth. However, we aim to problematize the matrices of public visibility and the social recognition added to the most vulnerable layers. Furthermore, we seek to understand how the relationship between the State and the Brazilian black population is consolidated on a daily basis. The project observes, in this scenario, the drama of a population that has been stigmatized for centuries, and that reaps the bad fruits, of a structural racism that plunges into the center of violence, of civil conflict. The objective of this text is, therefore, to delimit and critically analyze, based on official documentary sources of the Brazilian State — notably the member state —, the relationship between the State's biopower and the declared war on black lives. The main source of this work is the Atlas of Violence 2021, prepared by the Brazilian Public Security Forum in partnership with the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea), Jones dos Santos Neves Institute (IJSN) and the Ministry of Economy. From there, the project will follow a path to understand the real reasons behind the high rates of violence that, ideologically, do not correspond to the profile of a Democratic State of Law.