O racismo no discurso jornalístico sobre o negro em GZH: o assassinato de João Alberto Freitas

Abstract

Every 23 minutes a young black man is murdered in Brazil. Several factors lead to the death of black people, but we cannot deny that one of these factors is the reinforcement of racist stereotypes, that is, associating different types of violence with black people. Therefore, this work has the general objective of understanding the discourse on the murder of João Alberto Freitas, focusing on racial issues, published on the GZH news portal. For this, we discussed important concepts for understanding the use of discourses, such as reflecting on race, racism, racial discrimination, whiteness, ideology, discourse, and we analyzed two news published by the digital newspaper GZH, from Grupo RBS, published on the 19th and 25th. November 2020, concerning the murder of João Alberto. The methodology chosen is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), proposed by Van Dijk (1991, 2000, 2002 , 2005, 2008, 2012, 2018). The problem question that motivates us in this work is to investigate how the speech produced by the digital newspaper GZH represented the murder of João Alberto? Among the main considerations that we highlight is the journalistic silencing on racial and racism issues in the construction of the two news, naturalizing the white race as a representative of the human species, as well as reinforcing negative stereotypes in relation to the black man.