A cor da farda : as relações raciais na polícia militar de Sergipe

Abstract

In this work a study of classification systems and routine official in the Military Police of the State of Sergipe, aiming to show how the police can see inside the corporation in relation to their color. Considering all the problems discussed in previous works, regarding the official classification systems in the country and its precariousness in relation to the reduced number (or over) categories of census aimed at dealing with the complexity of Brazilian society. So we analyzed the working conditions and the everyday reality of the work of police, military police in the state of Sergipe, where he conducted twenty in-depth interviews with soldiers and senior officers of the battalions, companies and Isolated Command General Headquarters. Although the survey did not claim to be statistically significant, we tried to draw a good cross section of the corporation. We chose Battalions of the interior and the great Aracaju, a higher percentage of informants soldiers and cables, because they represent two thirds of the institution, making up the remainder between senior officers and several patents. Our focus is the police, and their social relations with regard to color or race in the workplace.