Direitos humanos para mulheres sem direitos? Como o racismo atravessa mulheres em cumprimento de pena privativa de liberdade na Cadeia Pública Feminina de Cáceres

Abstract

The purpose of this ethnographic work was to analyze how the phenomenon of racism operates in Brazilian society from the perspective of women deprived of liberty in the Cáceres Public Women's Prison Unit and their experiences. Through the ethnographic research method in Anthropology with the scope of participant observation and personal interviews carried out over a consecutive period of 01 year in fieldwork, the objective was to construct a narrative of how the increase in female incarceration in the national territory is biased towards "War to Drugs" and the crime of drug trafficking and how the racial issue cutsacross social and structural relations of power and incarceration in Brazil. From the framework of the construction of the social and symbolic identity of black people and going through the myth of racial democracy, the culture of whitening and the decolonization of black bodies, as the social markers of difference and the intersectional vision that crosses, in addition of race, social class and gender, through the writings of Lélia Gonzalez, who works to remodel racism and perpetuate its capitalist hegemony of domination and power of historically marginalized and subaltern subjects.