Necroeducation: reflections on the death of blacks in the Brazilian educational system

ABSTRACT This essay brings to the debate processes of invisibilization of the black youth in the Brazilian educational system with one of its main consequences being their symbolic death, which contributes to other ways of dying in the context of a society marked by structural racism. We start from the concept of biopolitics, which will be enhanced with the contribution of Achille Mbembe, by bringing and deepening the discussion from the concept of necropolitics, which seems to guide part of the educational policies in Brazil. These, in turn, are marked by an incomplete set of laws that do not guarantee access to and permanence of black youth in school. In this context, the challenge arises to deepen the concept of necroeducation to think about the consequences of the elimination of black bodies from school spaces guided by a certain intentionality that goes in the direction of letting die.