Black Delinquents: Analysis of Surveillance and Control Mechanisms of Black Women
Surveillance Mechanisms. Black Women. Control Mechanisms. Escrevivência.
In this dissertation, I analyze the mechanisms of surveillance and control of Black women. I aim to articulate race and gender to discuss the issue of control over Black female bodies and how it operates through surveillance networks. I emphasize that surveillance over Black bodies is a form of social control that perpetuates structural racism. The objective of this dissertation is to present surveillance, whether formal or informal, as a racialized mechanism stemming from a colonial and slave legacy. I propose the hypothesis that these control mechanisms are exercises of power that seek to maintain the subordination of Black female bodies as delinquents. I rely on a bibliographic and descriptive review of the works of Black intellectuals and the methodological choice of "escrevivência" as an analytical approach, which is not only a method but also a diasporic phenomenon of writing.