Never Meant to Survive
Subtitle: Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield Pub.
Published: December 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780742541016
Subjects: History; Ethnic Issues; History: World; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social Science / African-American Studies; Africa - General; Violence in Society; African Americans; America; Blacks; Brazil; California; Los Angeles; Rio de Janeiro; Social conditions
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, 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