Racialised regimes of remembrance: The politics of trivialising and forgetting the murders of Black children in Brazil

Abstract

This article starts from the notion of collective memory as a source of power and meaning and draws from the concepts of activist memory to reflect on the existence of a racialised regime of memory in Brazil. Considering the social struggles involving Black people and the decades of fights for voice and justice, this investigation will deliberate on the media practices and general public recollections around the death of Black children under the optics of Hall’s concept of racialised regimes of representation. Employing an online survey and content analysis, this work uncovers evidence of a different set of practices to report and remember the death of White and Black children and considers the impact of those practices by analysing the remembrance rates on the survey.