The criminalization of Capoeiras

Abstract

Objective: This work aimed to understand the process of criminalization of the black body from the capoeiras groups (maltas), in order to contribute to the fight against the naturalization of its marginality. Methodology: It is a bibliographic, exploratory and descriptive research, based on the historical-dialectical materialist method, with the aim of investigating the multiple determinations in which blacks were immersed, seeking to understand the synthesis and contradictions of the conceptions that criminalized it. Results and discussion: It was found that the criminalization of the black capoeiras took place in an expanded context of criminalization of black people, with the objective of social control and regulation of the body of black workers in Brazil, in a project of discipline. Conclusion: It is concluded that knowledge of the conflicts in which organized capoeira groups were included referred to the class struggle undertaken by them against slave colonialism in Brazil and that it is important to understand such conflicts to refute racist views of a black body “naturally prone to crime and vagrancy”, as we still see in part of the bibliography that analyzes the black capoeiras.