O dispositivo de racialidade e a necropolítica no Brasil: uma análise a partir de Sueli Carneiro

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the concepts of Raciality Device and Necropolitics in contemporary Brazil based on Sueli Carneiro and Achille Mbembe. The research establishes that Carneiro's Raciality Device functions as the historical and operational structure of Brazilian necropolitics, tracing its roots to the slave regime of the 16th century and perpetuating the marginalization and dehumanization of the Black population. Using the conceptual lens of Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, which exposes the state power to dictate who may live and, mainly, who must die and how, the work seeks to understand how the dynamics of racism are articulated with these two concepts that draw upon Michel Foucault's notion of biopower. The central objective is to highlight contemporary manifestations of extermination and control, analyzing necropolitical practices in their multiple dimensions, with an emphasis on gender intersectionality. To this end, the study delves into the genocide of black male youth, interpreting police violence and mass incarceration as active strategies of death, in accordance with the concept of "violence as a mode of subjectivation", and into the gender dimension of necropolitics concerning black women, manifested by "letting die" (omission and neglect in the health system, resulting in high rates of "preventable and avoidable deaths") and by reproductive control. Instead of focusing on resistance strategies, this study concentrates on demonstrating the permanence and functioning forms of this machine of death and subalternization in the current Brazilian scenario.