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This chapter addresses Wayne Morrison's critique regarding the omission of genocide in criminological discourse, drawing upon Zaffaroni’s analysis that incorporates Sykes and Matza’s “techniques of neutralization” to examine the motivations, rationalisations, and ideologies connected to genocidal acts. Utilising these frameworks, the study analyses justificatory narratives for genocide as articulated by the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB) through three primary sources: Karl Friedrich Von Martius’s "How to Write the History of Brazil" (1844), Francisco Adolpho Varnhagen’s "General History of Brazil" (1854), and Afonso Celso’s "Why Am I Proud of My Country" (1900). The research methodology combines bibliographic review with discourse analysis. The findings indicate that nineteenth-century historiography constructed narratives aiming to forge a national identity by neutralising accountability and legitimising colonial genocide. We argue that criminology must confront its ideological complicity with state-sponsored narratives by adopting a critical approach to colonial and racialized histories. Such an approach requires criminology to dismantle the symbolic structures that perpetuate inequality and racial violence. This necessitates recognising the ways in which historical and contemporary narratives of whiteness obscure the realities of genocide, epistemicide, and the marginalisation of racialised communities.

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The Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Historiography and the Neutralisation of Black and Indigenous Genocide

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    2025年

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  • Salah H. Khaled,
  • Luciano Góes

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This chapter addresses Wayne Morrison's critique regarding the omission of genocide in criminological discourse, drawing upon Zaffaroni’s analysis that incorporates Sykes and Matza’s “techniques of neutralization” to examine the motivations, rationalisations, and ideologies connected to genocidal acts. Utilising these frameworks, the study analyses justificatory narratives for genocide as articulated by the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB) through three primary sources: Karl Friedrich Von Martius’s "How to Write the History of Brazil" (1844), Francisco Adolpho Varnhagen’s "General History of Brazil" (1854), and Afonso Celso’s "Why Am I Proud of My Country" (1900). The research methodology combines bibliographic review with discourse analysis. The findings indicate that nineteenth-century historiography constructed narratives aiming to forge a national identity by neutralising accountability and legitimising colonial genocide. We argue that criminology must confront its ideological complicity with state-sponsored narratives by adopting a critical approach to colonial and racialized histories. Such an approach requires criminology to dismantle the symbolic structures that perpetuate inequality and racial violence. This necessitates recognising the ways in which historical and contemporary narratives of whiteness obscure the realities of genocide, epistemicide, and the marginalisation of racialised communities.