| Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities Contributor(s): Vargas, Joao H. Costa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742541029 ISBN-13: 9780742541023 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| Series: Transformative Politics Series |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 262 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |