Abstract

This article presents a literature review on black, poor and peripheral youth in Brazil, with the aim of analyzing inequalities of race, gender and class, and how these systems correlate to create particular experiences for these population segments. In this way, intersectionality aims to provide a critical analysis to reveal the context, the structural avenues that these subjects are hit by, and the positions that black youth occupy in society. By analyzing intersectionality, it is possible to reveal that black, poor and peripheral youth are mostly at a social disadvantage, unemployed, in conditions of poverty and exclusion, targets of police approaches, violence and mass incarceration. Young black women are criminalized and punished for their sexual and reproductive practices. Therefore, analyzing the structural systems of race, gender and class, and their implications for the living conditions of young black people, who are poor and live in peripheral territories, can make it possible not only to reveal the systems of oppression-domination to which they are subjected, but above all, to think of strategies on how to combat them. In view of this, it is worth highlighting the construction of public policies that intersect the categories of race, gender and class, since black youth experience racialized experiences and are intersected by other structures.