Abstract
This article aims to discuss different aspects relevant to the modus operandi of the neoliberal penal system in Brazil. Faced with the neoliberal advance concomitant with the restriction of the human condition, we wonder how Frantz Fanon's thought can contribute to the understanding of this punitive apparatus. Thus, we mobilize the racialization processes articulated by him in the face of the colonial situation to understand the colonial matrix of power as an institutional arrangement of the Brazilian position on the periphery of capitalism and as a guiding element of the racist performance of our penal system. Therefore, the analysis of those aspects’ points to the necessary interruption of institutionalized extermination practices against the black population, by rescuing abolitionist resistance.
Keywords:
Racialization; Coloniality; Peripheral capitalism; neoliberal penal system