MU’LEKES IN THE CITY OF MINORS: Legal-racial controls and experiences in freedom
Legal Controls; Disciplinary Institutions; Racism
This investigation aims to understand a dispersed manorial rhizome, in which jurists, together with doctors, religious, military, politicians, with their speeches and institutions contributed to the institutionalization of racial oppression in Brazil through the “minor problem” and black families considered “maladjusted”, from the Cidade de Menores “Getúlio Vargas” (1942-1974), a disciplinary institution founded in Sergipe. In addition to this rhizomatic network, it seeks to rescue part of the unknown history of the Cidade de Menores “Getúlio Vargas”, as well as to examine the experiences of freedom carried out by the “mu'lekes” when they dispute, in different ways, this racialized disciplinary control. To this end, it is based on the bibliographic review method, documentary research procedures in public archives, as well as the critical fabulation method.