Open AccessAs afro-reparações e o impacto da covid-19 na população afrodescendente nas Américas (EUA e Brasil): desigualdades de ontem nas desigualdades de hoje
Author(s) -
Marta Fernandes da Silva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2182-9748
pISSN - 2182-1097
DOI - 10.21747/2182-1097/13a9
Subject(s) - inequality , covid-19 , population , political science , humanities , sociology , demography , philosophy , medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In this paper we reflect on the fundamental cause for the afro-reparations demands, emphasizing some evidences during the post-abolition period, framed in the 19th century liberal ideas, highlighting the non-integration of the majority of former slaves in the United States of America and Brazil. Through a comparative analysis we intend to make more visible a historical legacy for afro-descendants in those countries, selecting indicators of inequalities that currently affect these communities and are, to a large extent, connected with the post-abolition. Subsequently, we tried to understand how the very high mortality of that population by Covid-19, relating it to those indicators, is a projection of the post-slavery era, making those inequalities prominently visible and, thus, reinforcing the need for the debate of afro-reparations