MY BLACK SKIN IN MY SECOND SKIN: Racism and Mental Health of the military police officer.
Black. Mental health. Military police, Racism.
Racism is a systematic tool that alters the mental health of black people, through processes of rejection and dehumanization, which systematically shreds subjectivity and individuality, changing the positive self-perception. Certainly this type of violence has common points when directed at men and women, but it also brings, in its core, peculiarities due to gender oppression, which black women are subject to. Faced with this central scenario of changing mental health, promoted by racism directed at black bodies, this research has the general objective of investigating the impact of this systematic tool of violence on the mental health of those people who have a double mark: a black skin and a uniform, like your second skin: military police officers of the Military Police of Bahia. And as specific objectives, to present the general scenario through the concept of Coloniality as a founding matrix in the formation of modern society, to demonstrate the consequences of this process in the construction of the subjectivity of the black population in a racialized society, to analyze the impacts of racism on the mental health of black person in uniform in the Military Police of Bahia and finally, to present the Sankofa project as a Public Security technology.