Nutricide and food racism in the neoliberal crisis and social and health crisis of the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil

Abstract

This essay aims to comprehend the intersections between racism, capitalism and the social and health crisis of hunger and food insecurity that plagues Brazil in the context after the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, the concepts of nutricide and food racism are used, bringing them closer to the concepts of necropolitics and genocide of the black population, in an understanding that the State fails to provide food security conditions to marginalized populations, especially the peripheral ones in large cities, in mostly black people, in a logic of letting die and generating death of these segments by excluding public policies and/or potentially harmful policies to human nutrition. The approximation between Public Health, hunger and racism is potentially generator of subsidies for the elaboration of health, food and social assistance policies, creating, at the same time, a territory of study and research in the field of food, nutrition and health.