THE RACIALITY-ETHNICITY DEVICE AND THE PRODUCTION OF A RACIALLY INERT SUBJECT IN THE CONTEXT OF BRAZILIAN ETHNIC-RACIAL RELATIONS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Pain, violence, suffering, torture. These were fundamental elements for the slavery model – which was used in Brazil for so many years – to be introduced and maintained, both in the colonial period (1500-1822) and during the Empire (1822-1889). In "The treatment of the living: formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic" (2000), Luiz Felipe Alencastro reports the arrival in Brazil of Father Pero Rodrigues (recognized as one of the best experts in the analysis of enslaved bodies), who at the behest of King Felipe II "formulates the paranoia of the colonizer. For him, the racial war leads the landlord to use violence as the engine of the economy, ratifying the relationship of domination and exploitation imposed on slaves" (ALENCASTRO, 2000, p. 68), since, through it, it would be possible to contain revolts and contestations.