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0224/2021 - “They go right after our children”: illnesses and resistancemothers of victims police brutality in Rio de Janeiro
“Eles vão certeiros nos nossos filhos”: adoecimentos e resistências de mães de vítimas de ação policial no Rio de Janeiro

Author:

• Verônica Souza de Araújo - Araújo, V. S. de - <veronica.sa.med@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7104-6984

Co-author(s):

• Edinilsa Ramos de Souza - Souza, E.R. de - <edinilsaramos@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1928-9265
• Vera Lucia Marques da Silva - Silva, V. L. M - <vera.marques@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2595-2679


Abstract:

This article adresses the experiences of Black women organized in social activism to fight for justice for the deaths of their children, victims of police brutality. These deaths are analyzed as part of the genocide of the Black people and they are the result of the action of a State that operates under a necropolitical manner, in which racism is an ideological tool for the production of disposability of Black bodies. In this work,the stories of four women living in territories dominated by gun violence in Rio de Janeiro, we identify the way in which they organize themselves politically to fight for justice, memory and reparation; and also their illnesses and individual and collective care strategies. We observe the absence of acceptance of their demands by the health system and also by the social assistance policies, while the activism stands out as a producer of care and welcoming.

Keywords:

Black Motherhood, Black genocide, mothers’ activism, racism, state violence.

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Araújo, V. S. de, Souza, E.R. de, Silva, V. L. M. “They go right after our children”: illnesses and resistancemothers of victims police brutality in Rio de Janeiro. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/Jun). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/they-go-right-after-our-children-illnesses-and-resistancemothers-of-victims-police-brutality-in-rio-de-janeiro/18123



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