Racism and necrochildhood: some clues for childhood and children’s education

Abstract

This article aims to understand the impacts that structural and historically institutionalized racism has on the life and death of black children. We start from a methodological approach based on discourse analysis based on the studies of Foucault and Mbembe, as these theorists present themselves as a rupture and transgression in thinking about black children, their childhood, life and death. We will address the concepts of biopower, biopolitics, necropower and necropolitics and the relationship with black children and their childhood. We hope that this work contributes to a more critical and open look at the genocide of black children in communities considered to be peripheral, as well as promoting public policies that review these impacts of racism on society and on the lives of black children.

Keywords

• infancy
• black child
• biopower
• necropolitics
• state racism