“Qual a possibilidade de um esquina eu virar réu?” : hip-hop, negritude e criminalização na grande Aracaju

Abstract

This essay discusses the methods how phenomenons by the Criminal System, focusing on how strategies of criminalization and Criminal Selectivity, are addressed in the lyrics and speeches by the hip-hop movement at the Grande Aracaju. In this bias, it objectifies to understand how the artists in this scenario uses these themes in their artwork, correlating them to racism's or blackness' issues. For this purpose, it will be made an analysis of Criminology of Social Reaction, articulated with studies on racial issue understood in its structural dimension. The research looked to understand the own hiphop movement's scene, how it developed, its politized discourse, as well as the dynamics of marginalization and criminalization that it suffers, as in a national aspect, as in a local aspect at Grande Aracaju. To discuss the contributions of Aracaju scene, in the proposed cutting, it was produced an online invite-form directed to artists-members of the movement at the Grande Aracaju, it was selected lyrics of rap made by these artists to a previous analysis and it was executed semi-structured interviews with rappers recognized publicly and notoriously in the local scene. Futhermore, the methodology used also includes bibliographic research, through literature review of Critical Criminology by Baratta (2002), as Criminal Law of Enemy from Zaffaroni (2007) and racial issues from Sueli Carneiro (2005), Silvio Almeida (2019) and Thula Pires (2013). Regarding the hiphop movement, it was also used as references to studies from Luiz Geremias (2006), Volnei José Righi (2011) and, in the cutting of Grande Aracaju, Angélica Ferreira da Silva (2020). The present study concludes that themes concerning the operation of the Criminal System in the lyrics and discourses by the hip-hop movement at the Grande Aracaju translates these artists' experiences and reveals the selective and discrimination with severe racial implications, concerning to its operation in line with the theoretical contributions invoked in the study.