Constitucionalismo negro: entre os imperativos sistêmicos do capitalismo, o silêncio na constituinte republicana de 1890/1891 e as expectativas normativas da população negra em torno da cidadania

Abstract

The aim of this work is to see to what extent the normative expectations of the black population regarding citizenship were accepted by the 1890/1891 Constitutional Process. To do this, it used the category of silence as an analytical tool, as an object of dispute over the power to say and silence, stories and memories, to create zones of belonging and exclusion. He then adopted as a conceptual element the idea of the Constitution as the result of tensions between the systemic imperatives of capitalism and the normative expectations of the population. It then brought in the Santo Domingo/Haiti Revolution as an interpretative contribution capable of exposing the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in modernity and modern constitutionalism. This choice is justified in order to verify the extent to which the concept of Constitution adopted applies to countries with a colonial heritage, such as Brazil. Based on these elements, we sought to ascertain how the Santo Domingo/Haiti Revolution influenced the formation of the Brazilian state. Next, it analyzed how the tensions between systemic imperatives and the normative expectations of the black population developed in the post-abolition context and how this impacted on the discussions in the Republican Constituent Process. Finally, it presents the result that the silence on the normative expectations of the black population in the 1890/1891 Constituent Assembly was a deliberate strategy to conceal the socio-racial hierarchies that are constitutive of the formation of the republican constitution.