Racismo, morte e criminalidade: a imagem do jovem negro como inimigo do Estado

Abstract

This paper analyzes the process of social exclusion of the black, from post-abolition to contemporary. The life outside the slave regime didn`t provide this population with beneficial transformations, since now the free ex-captives found themselves at the mercy of their own luck. With no place to live or jobs to support themselves, the black population was systematically pushed into marginality. The passage of the years has provided certain advances in what concerns the insertion of the black in the Brazilian society. However, the conditions between whites and blacks are still distoantes. But beyond these issues, it is important to highlight the high mortality rates of black youth in Brazil and in Maranhão, which had an increase rate of more than 400% over a period of 14 years. Such an elevation ends up characterizing this phenomenon as a genocide of black youth