From the Philippine Ordinances to necropolitics. The resistance of the black population and the structural embryo of positivist racism in Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss the existing racism in Brazilian society from the historical context of Brazil since colonization and to analyze how the resistance of the black population to Brazilian positivist structural racism is reconstructed in a historical key. To this end, an analysis of the particularities of the embryonic legislation that advocated what today has become latent: the role of the State in the policies of extermination of black existence is developed. Throughout the text, the main legislations created during the enslavement of the black population will be reviewed, accounting for their permanence even after the period of abolition. It is also intended to highlight which agenda or needs of the elites were met by these laws, taking into account the actions of the State, its strategy of extermination and necropolitics.