SAÚDE PÚBLICA E QUESTÕES RACIAIS EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA: UM OLHAR À LUZ DA NECROPOLÍTICA

Abstract

The research aims to discuss racial indignities in the face of the new Coronavirus pandemic. To this end, it questions whether the Afro-descendant population on the peripheries of capitalism is intensely affected by Covid-19, or whether the pandemic has democratized biological risks. Thus, the aim was to discuss structural racism and necropolitics, as well as to investigate data on mortality, testing and infection of blacks. This study was made possible by the literature review, especially Mbembe's lessons, by the hypothetical-deductive method and by the quantitative strategy. The conclusion of the analysis was that inside and outside the peripheries of capitalism, the black population is the main one affected by the pandemic - which reflects the necropolitical interest in promoting the death of the “social undesirables”.