The historic struggle of the Black Movement and human rights activists against racism in Brazil has highlighted the role of the state as a key agent in producing violence against the Black population. Police actions, especially in favelas and urban peripheries, have established a form of territorial management that dictates, based on race, who should live and who should die. The struggle of poor Black women, especially mothers and family members of victims of police violence, against this state not only exposes necropolitics and the genocide of Black people but also points to the construction of other possibilities for the world.

Professor Denilson Araújo de Oliveira works at the Human Geography Department of Rio de Janeiro State University. He coordinates the Africa and Diaspora Geography Study and Research Centre.

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