COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND SOCIAL-RACIAL INEQUALITIES

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the consequences of socio-racial inequalities in the structuring of the Brazilian State and the necropolitical effects in the coronavirus pandemic. It appears that the incidence of structural racism, due to the historical process of the elements of elimination and exclusion of black people, reveals the crisis of the Democratic State of Law to guarantee social benefits for the whole community. In this sense, within the pandemic reality, the necropolitical effects of this socio-racial inequality end up determining the uneven direction of health care policies and leaving the vulnerable population at the social margin, in a Sofia's choice of the necropolitics. To outline the present theoretical proposal, the study will make a documentary analysis of the official data of social and racial inequalities in the country, as well as the rates of spread of the coronavirus in the Brazilian scenario, in order to portray the impacts of the necropolitical barriers of the absence of assistance policies in the Covid-19 pandemic.