Abstract
The ai mis to apprehend the main elements of Brazilian socio-historical formation that support and reinforce racism as an indispensable structure for the consolidation of drug prohibitionism and its contemporary US matrix, based on theorist who contributed to the social thinking of black people in Brazil. There is a fundamental issue in the relationship between prohibition and racism: the eminence of free work, post abolition and racism: the eminence of free work, post-abolition, and the form of integration of black people in the economic-social constitution of dependent capitalism, since the transition period. That is, there is a historical crossing between the racial division of work, the exclusion delegated to the black population in the social order of Brazilian capitalism, and the support of scientific racism, eugenic social medicine together with the mental hygiene of psychiatry and Criminal Law, as embryonic landmarks of prohibition. The result of this is the criminalization of poverty shaped by racism, and the updating of the image of the drug user as a moral and criminal degenerate.
Keywords:
Prohibitionism; racism; war on drugs; Brazil's social formation