Genocídio no Brasil? uma análise dos debates da Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito Violência Contra Jovens Negros e Pobres da Câmara de Deputados

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Wedderburn, Rosana Silva Moore
• Outros Autores: [e-mail]
• Orientador(a): Campos, Luiz Augusto de Souza Carneiro de
• Banca de defesa: Szwako, José Eduardo Leon , Ribeiro Filho, Carlos Antonio Costa , Rios, Flávia Mateus , Santos, Flávia Medeiros
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia
• Departamento: Centro de Ciências Sociais::Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Violência; Homicídio; Racismo; Genocídio; Necropolítica
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Violence; Homicide; Racism; Genocide; Necropolitcs
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::SOCIOLOGIA URBANA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/18060

The primary documentation for this work came from the transcripts and official papers of the Congressional Inquiry Commission (CIC): Violence Against Poor Black Youth (2015), instituted by the House of Representatives of Brazil at the behest of then Federal Representative, Reginaldo Lopes (Workers Party/Minas Gerais). At the heart of the CIC’s inquiry was the high death-rate of poor black Brazilian youth killed violently and whether the State should be held directly or indirectly accountable for it. The CIC’s self-explanatory title points to its investigative purpose. Grounded as it is on the proceedings this congressional inquest, this work is a critical review of the varying positions upheld by the various actors who took part in it. Using content analysis as its methodological framework - from the standpoint of Sociology - the focus is on analyzing the concepts and meanings behind the presentations by the plethora of players who participated in the CIC’s hearings on Violence Against Poor Black Youth. The ensuing debates circled around two main interrogation points: a) is there a genocide in progress in Brazil against its black population, principally black youth? and b) can racism be said to be the direct or indirect cause of the homicidal violence directed at the black population, with specific reference to its youth? The CIC’s Final Report concluded that there was indeed a “symbolic genocide” taking place in Brazil and that such a circumstance was attributable to the prevalence of an “institutional racism” in Brazilian society. This work concludes that the term “symbolic genocide”, embraced by the CIC, is intended to bridge two divergent currents of thought, both with support in Brazilian society per se: a) those who assert that there is racism and genocide in Brazil; b) those who deny such contentions. In which case, the Final Report opted to navigate a middle course between those “two Brazil” when it found safe haven in the term “symbolic genocide”. Indeed, that term removes the possibility of accusing the Brazilian State of perpetrating genocide - an internationally proscribed and punishable crime - against a section of its own population.