Journalism rhetoric, crime reports and racial profiling practices: two cases involving brazilians

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  • Juliana Bastos Botelho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/c&i.v10i2.10791

Keywords:

Media analysis.racial pro - filing.visibility. reflexivity.criminal re - ports.

Abstract

This paper focuses on the problem ofracial profiling practices employed by po-lice forces in Brazil and in England. In re-cent years, this very controversial methodresulted in the death of two innocent Bra-zilian victims: Jean Charles de Menezesand Flavio Ferreira Sant’Ana. Becauseboth events were the subject of intensemedia coverage in Brazil, comparativemedia analysis may provide valuable in-sight into the question of how crimes de-riving from racist procedures call for spe-cific media strategies. My main argumentis that these two events – and the corre-sponding Brazilian public reactions theyproduced in Brazil and elsewhere – giveexpression to: 1) the problem of uncertaintyinherent in any racial profiling system,especially in multicultural settings;2) the contrastive Brazilian popular reac-tions and claims for justice in the casesabove.

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Published

2010-08-11

How to Cite

BOTELHO, J. B. Journalism rhetoric, crime reports and racial profiling practices: two cases involving brazilians. Comunicação & Informação, Goiânia, Goiás, v. 10, n. 2, p. 43–53, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/c&i.v10i2.10791. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/ci/article/view/10791. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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