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.摘要 本论文将巴西教育体系中黑人青年遭遇系统性隐形化的过程纳入相关辩论范畴，其核心后果之一即为黑人青年的象征性死亡，而这一现象又进一步加剧了在结构性种族主义主导的社会中其他形式的死亡危机。本研究以生命政治（biopolitics）概念为理论起点，并结合阿希尔·姆贝姆贝（Achille Mbembe）的相关研究成果，通过引入并深化死亡政治（necropolitics）这一核心概念展开论述——该概念似乎主导了巴西部分教育政策的走向。反观此类政策，其显著缺陷在于法律体系残缺不全，无法保障黑人青年顺利入学并在校园中持续完成学业。在此背景下，深化死亡教育（necroeducation）这一概念便成为一项迫切的研究课题，借此我们可以探讨在某种刻意导向「放任死亡」的逻辑下，黑人身体被驱逐出校园空间所引发的一系列后果。