Black youth movement and the new political and institutional spaces in Brazil

• Autores: Danilo de Souza Morais, Paulo César Paz Ramos
• Localización: Global movements, national grievances: mobilizing for "real democracy" and social justice / Benjamín Tejerina Montaña (ed. lit.), Ignacia Perugorría (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-9860-768-0, págs. 377-397
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this article it is presented a synthesis of the trajectory in the organization of the black youth in Brazil as a new actor or set of actors in civil society, emerging from the early 21st century, which express as its main demand the end of what they call as “genocide against black youth” in the country. It is emphasized in this synthesis the building of the first Black Youth’s National Meeting and the Black Youth’s National Forum, then it proceeds to describe the relations between this actor with the state actors, at the political and institutional public spaces, more directly concerning the first National Conference of Public Policies of the Youth and the National Council of Youth. The initial developed analysis points to new possibilities of public policies to ensure rights from the interaction between a new actor of the civil society: the black youth and the new democratic institutionalization in Brazil, the Councils and Sectoral Conferences. Therefore, it goes beyond the state-society dichotomy. It is argued, thus, that for a better analysis of this process in evidence one must not grasp these affinities airtight, nor the ties and tensions amongst the organizations of the black movement and the general youth movements (actors of the civil society), as also amidst these and parties and govern spheres (actors of the political society).