Lélia Gonzalez’s contributions to sociological studies on social control and punishment in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Vinuto, Juliana
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/civitas/article/view/40428
• topic: Racism by denial; Lélia Gonzalez; Sociology of violence; Social control; Punishment; Racismo por negación; Lélia Gonzalez; Sociología de la violência; Control social; Castigo; Racismo por denegação; Lélia Gonzalez; Sociologia da violência; Controle social; Punição

The goal of this article is to conduct a dialogue between empirical research from the sociology of violence and the conceptual discussions proposed by Lélia Gonzalez, with emphasis on what she called racism by denial. To this end, it will address works that empirically demonstrate the historical persistence of racially selective state repression by security and justice institutions, but that have not reverberated as paradigms in the field of sociological studies on violence. To answer the question about the possibilities of the conceptual debate proposed by Gonzalez to be useful for the analysis of empirical data that attest to a racially selective repression, we will see how the author was attentive to the selectivity that oppressed black individuals and territories, highlighting the concealed modes of a racialized performance that does not assume itself as such.