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João H. Costa Vargas

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https://profiles.ucr.edu/joao.vargas

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Anthropology

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João H. Costa Vargas
Professor: Anthropology

"My written work is a result of engaging collective inventions aimed at combating antiblackness. Categorically different than racism, antiblackness defines the modern world's foundational concepts of the Human and the Social. Emerging from collaborative efforts in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Salvador (in Brazil), and in Austin and Los Angeles (in the United States.), the collective inventions attempt to propose alternatives to the current dynamics of social death and early physical death by preventable causes. Such dynamics include juvenile and adult imprisonment, repressive policing, punitive schooling, residential hypersegregation, exposure to environmental hazards, and blocked access to healt ...more

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João H. Costa Vargas’s books

Average rating: 3.99 · 74 ratings · 5 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Catching Hell In The City Of Angels: Life And Meanings Of Blackness In South Central Los Angeles 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antiblackness by Moon-kie Jung (Editor), João H. Costa Vargas (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities (Transformative Politics Series, ed. Joy James) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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