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2. Never meant to survive: genocide and utopias in black diaspora communities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vargas,João Helion Costa (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 262 p., By examining two cities linked by common experiences of Blackness, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, this book identifies a prevailing genocidal force that organizes individuals and groups across society. 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 Costa Vargas's compelling account.
3. Never meant to survive: genocide and utopias in black diaspora communities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vargas,João Helion Costa (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 231 p., Contents: Introduction -- Genocide in the African diaspora : Brazil, United States, 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.
4. Recovering the African roots of Rio's favelas: the work of a Brazilian NGO
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Corrent,Manola (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 104 p, The history of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro begins in the final years of the nineteenth century as Brazil transitioned from an empire to a republic. As the nation continued to undergo dramatic political changes throughout the course of the twentieth century, the slums of its second largest city grew in size and number, in turn experiencing significant changes of their own. Initially, these communities were loosely incorporated squatter settlements that sprang up organically in order to house internal migrants and itinerant laborers. As they became more numerous and increasingly populated by a burgeoning urban underclass, favela residents began to organize internally, forming associações de moradores, or residents’ associations.
5. Rio Tries Counterinsurgency
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Muggah,Robert (Author) and Mulli,Albert Souza (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 2012
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Current History, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Current History
- Journal Title Details:
- 111(742) : 62-66
- Notes:
- Brazil's tourist-jammed cities are some of the most violent on the planet. A considerable number of the country's 43,000 annual murders occur on the streets of Sao Paulo, Recife, and Rio de Janeiro. And Brazilian cities are not alone in what might be called a bad neighborhood. The fact is that most major Latin American and Caribbean cities are today plagued by an epidemic of violence. With more than 20 murders per 100,000 people, the regional homicide rate is roughly three times the global average. Many of the larger urban centers -- from Caracas and Ciudad Juarez to Kingston and Port-of-Spain -- register the highest rates of lethal violence in the world.