The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering

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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 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 di

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"The Denial of Antiblackness marks nothing less than a landmark moment in the radical trajectories of Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and Black radical social thought. This bookthis radical projectis an invitation to engage with the very same Black radical experimentation and generosity of which it writes, while constantly punctuating this invitation with a demand for accountability on the part of Black and nonblack peoples to struggle with the specificity and structural immovability and determinacy of anti-Black terror and violence."Dylan Rodrguez, University of California at Riverside

"The Denial of Antiblackness brings a bold new way to approach the scandalous levels of antiblack violence, as well as the denial of the very fact of blackness as structuring dimension of the social process and state-formation in both Brazil and the United States. Joo H. Costa Vargas builds a brand new analytical bridge between the two countries, so different in many ways yet sharing the same fundamental racial contradictions."Osmundo Pinho, Universidade Federal do Recncavo da Bahia

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Joo 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.