Never Meant to Survive (eBook)

Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities

Joao H. Costa Vargas (Autor)

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2010
262 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-0331-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In Never Meant to Survive, Costa Vargas presents a historical, political, and social assessment of anti-black genocide and liberatory struggles to resist it. Through examination of two cities linked by common experiences of Blackness, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, the book identifies anti-black genocide as a prevailing force in organizing individuals and groups across society. Costa Vargas approaches his analysis of anti-black genocide in these cities through discussion of past conflicts and the work of groups like the Black Panther Party.

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Never Meant to Survive presents a historical, political, and social assessment of anti-black genocide and liberatory struggles that arose to resist it. Based on fine-grained accounts of community life at the street level, Costa Vargas's work presents crucial examples of political resistance and community activism.By examining two cities linked by common experiences of Blackness, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, this book identifies a prevailing genocidal force that organizes individuals and groups across society. The 1965 and 1992 riots in Los Angeles, the work of the Black Panther Party and favela activists in Brazil, and police brutality in struggles between black communities and the state in both L.A. and Rio de Janeiro all figure importantly in Costa Vargas's compelling account. What emerges from this analysis is a call for the destruction of the conditions that foster the marginalization of black communities and a halt to the internal conflicts between black social groups themselves.

Autor

Joao H. Costa Vargas is associate professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Genocide in the African Diaspora: Brazil, United States, and the Imperatives of Holistic Analysis and Political MethodChapter 4 The Inner City and the Favel: Transnational Black PoliticsChapter 5 Hypersegregation and Revolt: The Los Angeles Black Ghetto in Historical PerspectiveChapter 6 The Los Angeles Times' Coverage of the 1992 Rebellion: Still Burning Matters of Race and JusticeChapter 7 Hyperconsciousness of Race and its Negation: The Dialectic of White Supremacy in BrazilChapter 8 When Jacarezhino Dared to Become a Condominium: The Politics of Race and Urban Space in Rio de JaneiroChapter 9 Black Radical Becoming: The Revolution of Imperative GenocideChapter 10 Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Transformative Politics Series, ed. Joy James
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-0331-5 / 1442203315
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0331-0 / 9781442203310