Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher, da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2020 Sep 18;36(9):e00150120. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00150120. eCollection 2020.
COVID-19 incidence and mortality in countries with heavy social inequalities differ in population terms. In countries like Brazil with colonial histories and traditions, the social markers of differences are heavily anchored in social and racial demarcation, and the political and social dynamics and processes based on structural racism act on this demarcation. The pandemic's actual profile in Brazil clashes with narratives according to which COVID-19 is a democratic pandemic, an argument aligned with the rhetoric of racial democracy that represents a powerful strategy aimed at maintaining the subaltern place of racialized populations such as indigenous peoples and blacks, as a product of modern coloniality. This essay focuses on the pandemic's profile in the Brazilian black population, in dialogue with decolonial contributions and critical readings of racism. The authors discuss government responses and COVID-19 indicators according to race/color, demonstrating the maintenance of historical storylines that continue to threaten black lives. The article also discusses the importance of local resistance movements, organized in the favelas, precarious urban spaces underserved by the State and occupied by black Brazilians.
在社会不平等程度较高的国家，以人口术语衡量，新冠病毒发病率和死亡率存在差异。在巴西等具有殖民历史和传统的国家，差异的社会标志深深植根于社会和种族划分之中，基于结构性种族主义的政治和社会动态及进程对这种划分产生影响。巴西疫情的实际状况与新冠病毒是一种民主大流行的说法相悖，后者是种族民主言论的一部分，这种言论是一种强大的策略，旨在维持作为现代殖民性产物的、如土著人民和黑人等被种族化人口的从属地位。本文以巴西黑人人口中的疫情状况为重点，与去殖民化的贡献和对种族主义的批判性解读进行对话。作者根据种族/肤色讨论了政府的应对措施和新冠病毒指标，揭示了延续至今、威胁黑人生命的历史叙事的延续。文章还讨论了在国家服务不足、由巴西黑人居住的不稳定城市空间——贫民窟——中组织起来的地方抵抗运动的重要性。
