Por que joão alberto morreu?

Abstract

This article analyzes the death of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a black man, victim of homicide inside a commercial establishment in the city of Porto Alegre. In the context of consumer relations, the victim, as if inserted and controlled in discontinuous and fluid borders, categorized as a suspicious body, positioned far from the places historically guaranteed to the black population, was asphyxiated, as if he could not enjoy the inherent basic rights to citizenship. Racialized death is a summation of historical factors that relate the past and the present, with effects of the slave regime that function as structuring principles of Brazilian society.