"Shall i watch over the other?": notes on suicide, racism and necropolitics.

Notas sobre suicídio, racismo e necropolítica.

Abstract

Racism, a device of exclusion and ontological hierarchization, marks on black bodies and subjectivities, the sign of death. Taking into account the effects of dehumanization and suffering of racial origin, the objective was to produce a reflection of death-suicide in interface with racism through of the concept of necropolitics. Suicide in the black population is a phenomenon that refers to structural racism, whose strength from the experiences of poverty, non-belonging, unemployment, humiliation, violence, etc., are conditions that are associated with physical and psychological illness, as well as corresponding to risk factors recognized by suicide. Sice necropolitics is a form of governance that exposes and condemns death, even regulating the will to live, the idea of racism, homicide and suicide of black people is bet as part of the same genocidal package historically triggered by the State. Finally, through an empirical study, an analysis was made about the silencing of racism in health production. The black existence precarious in its multiple facets, the growing statistics, the absence of racial categories, as well as the suggestive relationship between the interdiction of speech and the dehumanization of deaths, promulgates the racialization of suicide of suicide as an ethical imperative.