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Never Meant to Survive

Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities

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Never Meant to Survive

Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities

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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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Feb 08 2008
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 262
ISBN 9780742541016
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Transformative Politics Series, ed. Joy James
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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