Segregation and extermination: eugenism revisited in the capital of São Paulo (2004-2017)
The eugenic movement emerged in the late-nineteenth century in England, with the main forerunner being Francis Galton (1822-1911); in Brazil, its receptiveness came from the years of 1917, whose exponent and interlocutor was Renato Kehl (1889-1974). Eugenic ideologues were keen on their effective elimination of groups that exhibited abnormal behavior through public birth control policies, prisons, physical elimination of undesirable ones, and other methods. This research aims to examine the evolution of eugenism to the present day and the forms that eugenism has taken in Brazil in the twenty-first century. Consideration will be given to anti-drug policies, mass incarceration and lethality in the capital of São Paulo, from 2004-2017. To support this thesis, the documents that have guided the drug policies in Brazil, the data on available incarceration, and institutional reports on the Map of Violence and the data on lethalities extracted from the reports will be considered. In making the survey on incarceration and lethality the motto is to represent the data in a cartographic way in order to demonstrate the regions from which the victims of incarceration and lethality originate, since it is believed that when mapping the information gathered they can offer elements to better understand which target audience of contemporary eugenism.