Resenha: PEDRETTI, Lucas. A transição inacabada: Violência de estado e direitos humanos na redemocratização. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2024. 316 p.
Keywords:
Democracy, Human Rights, Dictatorship, Afro-Brazilian CultureAbstract
The transition from Brazil's military dictatorship to democracy occurred amidst a surge of discussions about Human Rights, with the political prisoner as a key figure, especially in the demands for amnesty that marked the period. In "The Unfinished Transition," Lucas Pedretti discusses the limits of applying the concept of Human Rights and the very process of democratic transition for the Black and peripheral populations. To this end, the historian and sociologist analyzes the persistence of repression and arbitrariness in police violence in the favelas and demonstrates that the repressive apparatus of the dictatorship is not a novel phenomenon, but rather stems from strategies already used to suppress the so-called "dangerous classes" in Rio de Janeiro since the early republic.