The understanding and denunciation of racial violence as genocide of the black population

This article presents a reflection on the understanding of racial relations in Brazil and the violence imbricated in this process as a genocide of the black population. To do so, a reading of antiracist struggles, undertaken by black social movements, is made that denounces the existence of such extermination. The book "The Black Genocide of Brazil: The Process of Masked Racism" written by Abdias Nascimento and three social movements that specifically work against the genocide of black youth is particularly focused. The plot sewn throughout the text allows to understand that the understanding of the violence against the black population as a genocide has been a political strategy of the black movements, seen as provocateurs of annoyance.