População negra e periférica no narcotráfico: um estudo comparativo de Chicago e Rio de Janeiro em 2017

Abstract

The structural violence in the shape of racism its something that goes through the black population in all the countries, being present in the black people ́s life and making vitims until the present. There is a lot of historical things in common between the process of racial violence in a segregated shaped which both of these populations had been through. The both cities find itself with murder rates and criminality related to drug trafficking, activity which is constantly associated to high levels of letal gun violence in the regions where black young men are the main target of the actions from gangs and factions, which can be targets of elimination, or the recruitment to activities linked to ilicit gains. The historiographic aproach here brings the comprehension of the origins of this contexts of violence in the both cities and their similarities. The study's conclusions point to the perception that, over time, the co-option of the black population to work in drug trafficking in the two cities takes place from a previous post-colonial context, followed by urbanization and geographic segregation, culminating in the formation of ghettos in Chicago and slums in Rio de Janeiro, places that in turn concentrate high levels of poverty and lack of opportunities for advancement.