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In recent years, the racial slant in the pattern of violent deaths in Brazil has become evident. Especially in the younger sector of the population, there have been a growing number of homicides of black people and a decline in the number among white people, which indicates an increasing inequality in the experience of violence among racial groups. When broken down into color and race, the lethal incidents monitored by the police show that they increasingly affect black people. The prison population grew, due to the jailing of black people. The discriminatory victimization of young black men has been the main concern for the social movements of black youth, which has called it "a genocide against black youth". In addition to quantitative data, this article analyses the way that such movements have interpreted the data, in order to raise the banner of social protest against that "genocide" and it also discusses the calls for political action to redress the problem and the specific demands of the social movements in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the trabalho escravo, a term used in Brazil for defining slave labor. Various topics discussed include its comparison with forced or unfree labor in international market, laws enforced by Brazilian government for managing employment conditions, transatlantic slavery and issue of racism faced by laborers.

The article discusses the experiences of sugarcane workers in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, examining two union leaders from the municipality of Vicência identified as Severino and Paulo. It focuses on the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and reflects on ideas concerning race, authority, and respect. The author explores relationships between workers and planters, power hierarchies, and unionism and labor organizing. Other topics include racial prejudice and the legacy of slavery, Brazil's Rural Worker Statute (ETR), and sugarcane industry strikes.