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In this paper we problematize the determinants that configure the current Brazilian policy on drugs as a strategic device for the reproduction of institutional and structural racism, a system that shapes and particularizes the racial issue in the country, having as one of its main expressions the incarceration and mass genocide of black people. To this end, we analyzed the binomial functioning of prohibitionism-racism in the context of the “drug issue” based on historical aspects and current data on incarceration in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, resulting from a master’s research, aims to analyze the relationship between the advance of authoritarian neoliberalism and the re-updating of drug policies during the Bolsonaro administration. The study, qualitative in nature, was anchored in historicaldialectic materialism and used bibliographic and documentary research, in addition to content analysis technique. It was identified that, historically, Brazilian legislation on drugs, based on the prohibitionist paradigm and on the idea of the “war on drugs”, produces genocide and incarceration of the black population. In the context of authoritarian neoliberalism and the advancement of the penal state, public policies on drugs underwent updates that promoted the defunding of the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS), the resurgence of repression and punishment aimed mainly at the social and punitive control of the black working class, the expansion of the asylum perspective, the designation of abstinence as the main form of intervention, and facilitating involuntary hospitalizations; thus, a prohibitionist re-updating of drug policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this article is to point out new directions for professional training that enables the debate on race in all spaces assumed by the category: direct action in social policies and in the organizational instances of the profession, as well as in the academic environment through research, teaching, and extension. The literature review that supported the discussions outlined here points to the urgency of incorporating the debate on race into the scope of social work in a deeper and more permanent way. This challenge is part of the greater challenge, that of defending the hegemony of the current professional ethical-political project based on critical theory, and also on the historical need to build organized social resistance that points to overcoming class society and racial discrimination. Therefore, from the understanding that the debate on race is indispensable for the apprehension of the historical totality of Brazilian reality, it follows that it is necessary to incorporate the contents and discussions that refer to the problem of racism, contributing, in this way, to the construction of a anti-racist professional formation, truly committed to social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper comes from developments in the research “Protection and guarantee systems for human rights aimed at children and youth in Portugal, Angola, Brazil, and Mozambique.” We reflect on the lack of protection for children and adolescents in Brazil, analyzing it from the point of view of structural racism in a colonial context, in the post-Abolition period, as well as its persistence in the process of consolidating capitalism and its contemporary expressions. We mention two emblematic cases of violence against black children that occurred during the pandemic, thus demonstrating that the tragedy caused by the crisis of capital, along with the crisis of public health and other elements aggravated by the COVID19 pandemic, is the persistence and exacerbation of coloniality and racism that has plagued Brazil for over 500 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article's purpose is to provide arguments for the debate on the participation of social workers in phenotype evaluation committees of affirmative action policies in public tendering. In order to do this, we: (a) outline the insertion of social workers in the phenotype evaluation committee for the tendering of civil servant positions in the São Paulo Court of Justice in 2017; (b) reflect on the formation of social workers based on historical-dialectical materialism and the theoretical, ethical, and political elements that enable these professionals to work in the fight against racism; (c) share the experiences of candidate evaluation from members of the phenotype evaluation committee and the rejection of the structural racism that marks the life of the black population; and (d) outline some proposals that could allow social workers to reflect and debate on the professional training of the field and anti-racism action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay presents some reflections on the genocide of black youth and the importance of Brazilian social work in confronting this reality. To this end, we used case studies as methodology, in dialogue with the analysis of social relations in the field of ethnic-racial and class inequalities. We understand that the topic addressed should not be seen in a random and isolated way, but as a result of historical violence motivated, above all, by racism. We also use official data and statistical indicators to point out the social phenomenon called the genocide of black Brazilian youth. This article is the result of the final paper of a lato sensu specialization course in Social Policies and Intersectoriality at the Fernandes Figueira Institute, part of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, in 2018. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on documentary and bibliographical research that aims to highlight a discussion about Gypsy peoples as an important dialogue in the debate about race and ethnicity in the Brazilian Social Work. To this end, a brief history about the Roma people and the process of marginalization they went through in Brazil is discussed, showing the experience of prejudice, stigmatization, and the creation of the precarious living conditions that enabled them as social services' users. Presenting research and analysis on the ethnic-racial debate within Social Work based on the professional training, intellectual production, and the stances of workers' organizations, this article highlights the (non) incorporation of the discussion about the Roma people in this debate. From this, the need for deepening and broadening the ethno-racial debate among social workers is presented as a defensive instrument of human rights in line with professional ethical principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to contribute to the reflections on the relationship between racism, the labor market and the limits of access of the black population to social security in Brazil. To this end, a bibliographic review was made in the field of the Marxist tradition about the relationship between the so-called primitive accumulation, the origin and development of capitalism, the colonization process of the Americas and slavery; on the Brazilian social dynamics in which race relations developed, originating and rooting racism in the country; and, about the current condition of work and social security. In addition, the data available at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) on the black population, the labor market and social security were used to support the reflections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The criminalization of abortion in Brazil does not reduce the number of abortions, but it does put women's health and reproductive life at risk. The experiences of women in situations of abortion are diverse and permeated by class and race structures. The purpose of this article is to analyze how racism and violence are materialized in the lives of young people from the suburbs, and how abortion cases are generated through violence. In order to do so, we analyze the cases of two young black women from suburbs who have resorted to an illegal abortion procedure. Black Feminism will be considered as our theoretical framework because it allows us to denature the universal conception of women and to understand racism as a structural phenomenon in the life of women. Results show that there is a complex scenario of racial gender violence that not only affects the entire abortion process, but also translates into structural oppression in the reproductive life of black women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to reflect on the ways of the fight against Racism in contemporary times, especially at that moment, crossed by the pandemic of the new Coronavirus (Covid-19), where racial inequalities become more evident, while society remains silent in the face of genocide of the black population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of the first stage of a doctoral research, whose general objective is to reflect on the work of social workers in educational policies and their alignment with recent legislation to fight racism in the field, based on the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 and the Law of Guidelines and Bases for Education (1996). The first phase consists of mapping the output of postgraduate programs in social work about racism in education, available on the database of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes, in Portuguese). The importance of education and of educational policies as instruments to fight racism and racial discrimination in Brazil is taken into account, while seeking to appreciate the dialectic relationship of these policies with society, as well as its political dimension within the processes of socialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a reflection on the impacts of racism on the daily lives of black children, whose childhood is marked by the misery and violence of the capitalist state. By advancing the debate and presenting the intersection between social class, gender roles, and the ethnicracial question in the process of reproducing asymmetric social relations in Brazil, it is possible to identify how the expressions of patriarchy and conservatism connect with racism to also justify the social inequality that reaches childhood and reduces the possibilities of transformation of the reality of this generational group. Finally, there is the problematization regarding the marginal place of the debate on ethnic-racial relations and the privileges of whiteness in the field of social work, as well as on how this disagrees with the professional ethical-political project oriented by the uncompromising defense of human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to address the war on drugs, debating the racist foundations of this war and the maintenance of racial hierarchy it provokes. To this end, it will focus on two dimensions of the prohibitionist and warmongering Brazilian policy against drugs, the genocide and the incarceration of the black population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to reflect on the specificities of racism and racial inequalities in the contemporary scene, as well as the strategies adopted to address them within the scope of public policies. Its main thread is the remarkable records of the main actions developed by the Special Coordination os Public Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality of the state of Ceará, Brazil (Ceppir, in Portuguese), between 2015 and 2018. Finally, the local characteristics and the moves taken for the constitution of a transversal public policy in Ceará will be elucidated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to raise the debate about the supposed social "care" that is being propagated through state actions, having as justification the protection of vulnerable individuals. The state claims to protect, but ends up promoting violations that reaffirm the punishment and extermination of black bodies and behaviors. It is in this process that we intend to address colonial care that re-actualizes the capture of black existence through colonialist discourses and practices. In addition, we will talk about the asylum logic and the extermination of black existence, understanding it as a strategy that perpetuates itself beyond the institutional walls and that composes Brazilian sociability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to discuss the inseparable transversality of certain factors that shape the madperson's profile today. In this sense, we first consider the city and the urbanization processes led by the modern capitalist system as the socio-spatial framework in which misery and madness emerged en masse as permanent phenomena. In periphery countries, such as Brazil, which were colonized by the world capitalist system based on the slavery of the African workforce, madness persisted throughout the ages as a disease of the black and poor. At present, when the Brazilian urbanization rate approaches 90% and coincides with the structural crisis of the system, we observe that blacks are mostly concentrated in the dense peripheries of cities, with the worst indicators of housing, employment, income, education, and mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper exposes the events of the transition period from slavery to wage labor as fundamental to the compulsory location of blacks in the reserve army of labor and consequent subaltern insertion in the labor market in Brazilian capitalist society. With emphasis on factors that contributed to streamline this process, in the legal-political, economic, and ideological fields, which aims to provide the production of a constant alienation of the black people. This set of determinations gave rise to the necessary presupposition for the existence of the workforce over-exploitation regime in Brazil, with sharper effects on the black people of the Brazilian proletariat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes that the analytical category "racism" is not adequate to analyze the experiences of black people, either in Brazil or in the rest of the diaspora. By supposing that black experiences and non-black experiences are analogous and therefore commensurable, racism does not account for the uniqueness of black experiences. Indeed, black people occupy a unique position in the constitution of modern subjectivities. Constituting the opposing identities, in which humanity defines itself, the black person is simultaneously excluded from the human family and indispensable for the constitution of that same family. Antiblackness, unlike racism, accepts this proposition as a starting point and suggests that the fundamental dyad of the modern world is "black people/non-black people." This dyad suggests a planetary social world very different from that of racism. According to racism, the defining dyad of the planetary social world is "white people/non-white people". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay aims to analyze the inborn racism in and of the Brazilian prohibitionist drug policy, presenting the elements that characterize it as a racialized and intersected policy. In the perspective of confronting this picture of intrinsic racism, harm reduction is presented as an anti-racism antidote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]