Abstract
The study aims to explore the persistence and reinventions of a knowledge-power that, through criminological racism, has been operating towards the nationalization of the death of black and slum youth. In this sense, the article analyzes how ”white fear” has been a historical political operator that seeks to legitimize racial control in Brazil since the formal abolition of slavery, through criminal and urban policies. With the purpose of highlighting the persistence of criminological racism, we seek to insert discussions about necropolitics in current rationalities of public security and the colonialism present in police massacres in slum and peripheral territories. Therefore, the need for an anti-racist criminology is discussed with the call for Social Psychology to assume its irrefutable ethical-political commitment to anti-racism.
Keywords:
Criminology; Racism; Colonialism; Massacre; Necropolitics