Black Women’s Struggle in the “fila da sacolinha”

an approach of brazilian prision system’s necropolitics

Abstract

This paper analyses the experience of women who acompany the serving time of their sons or daughters, brothers / sisters, partner and others. These people are mostly black people. Still today, the administration of the population deprived of liberty as well of their families maintain the colonial thinking, which racializes individuals refusing them citizenship and the attribution of humanity. Thus, it is possible to perceive an exposure to structural racism, through systematic violence against black women who are the protagonists of the prison universe, even when they are not inmates. The hypothesis presented is that a necropolitical management is also evident in the service of attendance to family visits within the service of attendance to family visits within the prison.

KEYWORDS: Structural Racism. Necropolitics. Black Women.