Structural and institutional racism and the justice of childhood and youth: the (lack of) protection of black poor kids and young

Abstract

The structural and institutional racism is a marker in the social relations, reflecting in how questions regarding small children and adolescent are dealt in Brazil and its communication with the justice system. The absence of register of the item race/color in institutional documents made in socio-occupational spaces of this area, as in health area, impacts the profile unveiling of the women assisted and in the information provided in the referrals made. Is observable in the professional routine that the majority of the mothers, fathers or relatives who have their infants and children sent to institutional care facilities, those who request assistance in processes of institutional care or destitution of the family power, and those who have their children under socio-educational measures, are either black or dun. Surveys made in the making of this article show that the absence of information about race/color/ethnicity regarding children under institutional care are the top index, followed by a majority of blacks and duns in the registered information. Moreover, adolescents in freedom restriction measures, are widely black or dun. The approaches to the debate about the structural and institutional racism that trespass the justice system points to the urgency of questioning if this system will remain ignoring or making invisible the racist, symbolic and factual violence that leads not only to the loss of the family power in poor, peripheral and black families, but also to institutionalization of children in care spaces and socio-educational measures to adolescents.