“White out, black in”: scenes on punishment and black genocide in the Federal District

• Autor(a) principal: Flores, Tarsila
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Insurgência
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/insurgencia/article/view/19728
• topic: Punição. Genocídio Negro. Direito à Cidade. Violência Policial. Teatro da Crueldade.; Punishment. Black Genocide. Right to the City. Police violence. Theater of Cruelty

This article discusses the film “White out, Black in” (2014), a documentary-fable-fiction, that approaches classic scene of the Brazilian periphery: the police violence on young black bodies. The methodology chosen was the Documentary Ethnography and the concept used as a trigger for the analysis was that of Scenes of the Black Genocide, thought from the Theater of Cruelty. As hypothesis there’s the idea that this type of violence that tries, but doesn’t kill the young black man, can be an expression of genocide. The product of police violence was observed as social isolation, personal weakening and affective bonds. The characters resist the physical-emotional near-death, perpetrated by state agentes, with art, reworking the life and strength of the Black People in reinventing their own history.