Before and after the shooting

the antigenocidal poetics of the black saraus

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how, throughout the republic, the national security forces, at the service of the State, implemented a broad process of genocide against the Brazilian black population. The statistics, which each year shock with the increase in crimes, have increasingly revealed the structural racism ingrained in the Brazilian military and civil police. That said, it is more than necessary to draw an overview of this ongoing tragedy, always catching a glimpse of the increasingly realistic data produced by the State itself, which insists that there is no racism in Brazil, but the numbers show the opposite. This article proposes to debate, firstly, how the emergence and performance of the military police can take place, mainly, in relation to marginalized and peripheral subjects. Then show how marginalized and peripheral subjects used poetry to denounce and fight this extermination, writing poetry, creating cultural spaces ant moving peripheral spaces. Reflections on this genocide are supported by contributions from Michel Misse (2011); Mércia Amorim (2020); Maria Aparecida Bento (2002); in addition to the Atlas of Violence (2019) and personal accounts suffered at the hands of the military police.

[Received on: May 21, 2021 - Accepted on: June 18, 2021]