Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-323) and index.
Contents:
Preface : The Challenges of Black Autonomy -- Introduction. Our Lives Are Our Deaths : Antiblackness and Oblique Identification -- Part I. Austin, U.S.A. : The Dynamics of Youth Incarceration. Does Heaven Have a Ghetto? Growing Up in Prisons -- Stanzas of Oppression and Hope : Voices of Incarcerated Black and Latino Boys -- Negotiating Quotidian Violence and Uncertain Futures : Narratives from Black and Latina Girls -- Part II. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : Empire-State Terror and Apartheid. Reclaiming Public Space : Rolezinhos as Protest -- The Pacifying Police : Security through Brutality -- Part III. The Denial of Antiblackness. Michael Zinzun : The Fall and Rise of the Black Cyborg -- Black Suffering as Catalyst : Multiracial Blocs in Diaspora -- Conclusion : The Slave against the Cyborg.
Summary:
"Joao 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 to 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 in makes possible."--Page 4 of cover.
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