From strategic silence to racial literacy: anti-racist challenges of the “white” Public Defender’s Office in Acre.
institutional racism; Public defense; whiteness; racial literacy
This partial thesis report presents a research path on how the Public Defender's Office of the State of Acre reproduces and confronts racism at the institutional level since the advent of Complementary Law n. 132/2009. In light of the constitutional-legal responsibilities and the counter-majoritarian vocation of the body, as well as critical race theory and critical studies of whiteness, the existence of a tiny number of black people in the defense staff is problematized, as the perception of its members about this scenario, the performance of its superior administration and the prevalent narcissistic pact with other institutions of the justice system. During its development, the work uses quantitative and qualitative data analysis, semi-structured interviews and participant observation.