THE RULE IS CLEAR: A JUDICIARY WITHOUT TURBANS, IN A SLAVE SOCIETY
Judicial power. Structural racism. Black judges.
The Judiciary Branch has eminently racist, patriarchal and sexist characteristics, as evidenced by data gathered by the National Council of Justice (CNJ) in 2018 and 2021, which indicate a tiny portion of black female judges. Since 2013, the Judiciary Branch itself has been adopting measures to reduce racial inequality in its staff, but they have not been enough to reverse institutionalized racism and machismo. In this context, the general objective of this research is to understand why, even in the face of measures that since 2013 aim at diversifying the composition of the Judiciary, in recent years there has been a decrease in the number of black magistrates in Brazil. The specific objectives are: i) to describe the historical processes of organization of the Judiciary (both instances and courts) as a racist and sexist Power; ii) identify the spaces (not) occupied by women, and mainly by black women, in the aforementioned Power; iii) present and analyze the actions that the CNJ has been implementing to combat inequality in the Judiciary; and iv) evaluate the effectiveness of these actions.