Title: Never meant to survive : genocide and utopias in Black diaspora communities /
Authors: Vargas, João Helion Costa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub.,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Black people America Social conditions.; African Americans California Los Angeles Social conditions.; Black people Brazil Rio de Janeiro Social conditions.
Abstract: "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, Joao H. Costa Vargas's work considers crucial examples of political resistance and community activism. 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 this account."--Jacket
Contents: Introduction -- Genocide in the African diaspora : United States, Brazil, and the imperatives of holistic analysis and political method -- The inner city and the favela : transnational Black politics -- Hypersegregation and revolt : the Los Angeles Black ghetto in historical perspective -- The Los Angeles Times' coverage of the 1992 rebellion : still burning matters of race and justice -- Hyperconsciousness of race and its negation : the dialectic of white supremacy in Brazil -- When a favela dared to become a condominium : challenging Brazilian apartheid -- Black radical becoming : the revolution imperative of genocide.