The Denial of Antiblackness

Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering

João H. Costa Vargas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2018
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-0093-9 (ISBN)

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An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society.

An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society

Thanks 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.

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.

Contents
Preface: The Challenges of Black Autonomy
Introduction: Our Lives Are Our Deaths: Antiblackness and Oblique Identification
Part I. Austin, U.S.A.: The Gendered Dynamics of Youth Incarceration
1. Does Heaven Have a Ghetto?: Growing Up in Prisons
2. Stanzas of Oppression and Hope: Voices of Incarcerated Black and Latino Boys
3. Negotiating Quotidian Violence and Uncertain Futures: Narratives from Black and Latina Girls
Part II. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: State Terror and Apartheid
4. Reclaiming Public Space: Rolezinhos as Protest
5. The Pacifying Police: Security through Brutality
Part III. The Denial of Antiblackness
6. Michael Zinzun: The Fall and Rise of the Black Cyborg
7. Black Suffering as Catalyst: Multiracial Blocs in Diaspora
Conclusion: The Slave against the Cyborg
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	6
Verlagsort	Minnesota
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5179-0093-X / 151790093X
ISBN-13	978-1-5179-0093-9 / 9781517900939
Zustand	Neuware