Denial of Antiblackness

Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering

AvJoão H. Costa Vargas

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of societyThanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet, there is little awareness of the systemic factors that make such a distinct form of dehumanization possible. In both the United States and Brazil-two leading nations of the black diaspora-a very necessary acknowledgment of black suffering is nonetheless undercut by denial of the pervasive antiblackness that still exists throughout these societies.In The Denial of Antiblackness, JoÃo H. Costa Vargas examines how antiblackness affects society as a whole through analyses of recent protests against police killings of black individuals in both the United States and Brazil, as well as the everyday dynamics of incarceration, residential segregation, and poverty. With multisite ethnography ranging from a juvenile prison in Austin, Texas, to grassroots organizing in Los Angeles and Black social movements in Brazil, Vargas finds the common factors that have perpetuated antiblackness, regardless of context. Ultimately, he asks why the denial of antiblackness persists, whom this narrative serves, and what political realities it makes possible.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-28
Mått:140 x 216 x 51 mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:9781517900939

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

JoÃo H. Costa Vargas is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He is author of Catching Hell in the City of Angels (Minnesota, 2006) and Never Meant to Survive.

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"The Denial of Antiblackness marks nothing less than a landmark moment in the radical trajectories of Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and Black radical social thought. This book-this radical project-is an invitation to engage with the very same Black radical experimentation and generosity of which it writes, while constantly punctuating this invitation with a demand for accountability on the part of Black and nonblack peoples to struggle with the specificity and structural immovability and determinacy of anti-Black terror and violence."-Dylan RodrÍguez, University of California at Riverside"The Denial of Antiblackness brings a bold new way to approach the scandalous levels of antiblack violence, as well as the denial of the very fact of blackness as structuring dimension of the social process and state-formation in both Brazil and the United States. JoÃo H. Costa Vargas builds a brand new analytical bridge between the two countries, so different in many ways yet sharing the same fundamental racial contradictions."-Osmundo Pinho, Universidade Federal do RecÔncavo da Bahia

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPreface: The Challenges of Black AutonomyIntroduction: Our Lives Are Our Deaths: Antiblackness and Oblique IdentificationPart I. Austin, U.S.A.: The Gendered Dynamics of Youth Incarceration1. Does Heaven Have a Ghetto?: Growing Up in Prisons2. Stanzas of Oppression and Hope: Voices of Incarcerated Black and Latino Boys3. Negotiating Quotidian Violence and Uncertain Futures: Narratives from Black and Latina GirlsPart II. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: State Terror and Apartheid4. Reclaiming Public Space: Rolezinhos as Protest5. The Pacifying Police: Security through BrutalityPart III. The Denial of Antiblackness6. Michael Zinzun: The Fall and Rise of the Black Cyborg7. Black Suffering as Catalyst: Multiracial Blocs in DiasporaConclusion: The Slave against the CyborgAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex