O genocídio dos adolescentes negros no município de Belo Horizonte: quem importa?

Abstract

Black adolescents suffer a peculiar disqualification and competitive disadvantages that arise from their racial condition. This study adopted a quantitative approach. An analysis was carried out to characterize the epidemiological profile of deaths by homicide and assess inequalities of rate of deaths by homicide of black and non-black adolescents who had lived in the municipality of Belo Horizonte from 2000 to 2014. This is a cross-sectional populationbased study of death by homicide of adolescents aged 10 to 19 years residing in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, from January 2000 to December 2014. For this study, data from a secondary source extracted from the Mortality Information System (SIM), provided by DATASUS, were used. The purpose of this thesis was to demonstrate, through the analysis of homicides, the impact of ethnic-racial inequalities as one of the multiple faces of violence in the population of adolescents that live in the municipality of Belo Horizonte. In this work, the main components of racism and its effects on the Brazilian society are analyzed through a historical journey on Latin America and Brazil. The description of the historical evolution of the Brazilian racial classification system, officially adopted, shows that it results from socially constructed options. Over the years, race was a useful construction not only to classify the human variation, but also to justify the exploration of groups considered inferior. The construction of the concept of race, the slavery in the country, the ideal of whitening, the myth of racial democracy defined the construction of the national identity and the forms of perception of racism in Brazil.