João H Costa Vargas
Biographic Data
| ID | 188155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | João H Costa Vargas |
| GIVEN NAMES | João H Costa |
| FAMILY NAME | Vargas |
| SIGNATURE | VARGAS J H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1335-0179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Estado da Arte nos estudos e pesquisas sobre Cidades, Urbanização e Relações Étnico-Raciais, e Enunciados sobre o Dossiê Cidades Negras no Brasil e nas Américas
O presente texto tem como objetivo apresentar o estado da arte sobre a cidade, a urbanização e as relações étnico-raciais no Brasil, em especial, as pólis e os territórios negros. Posteriormente, apresentamos os textos que constituem o dossiê, Cidades Negras nas Américas: a produção de políticas de enfrentamento ao racismo. Por último, é urgente a produção de ensino, pesquisa e extensão sobre as cidades brasileiras com ênfase nas relações étnico-…
Mais que e para-além do racismo
Este artigo tece considerações sobre antinegritude e a distingue do racismo, expondo a falsa universalidade do Social e do Humano: o racismo ocorre no Social entre os Humanos, enquanto a antinegritude continuamente expulsa os negros e a negritude dessas categorias modernas fundamentais cujas definições derivam da expulsão violenta. Para delinear a discussão, o artigo analisa dois textos paradigmáticos que se esforçam para lidar intransigentemente…
More Than and Beyond Racism
This article keys in on antiblackness and distinguishes it from racism, laying bare the false universality of the Social and the Human: Racism takes place in the Social among the Human, while antiblackness continually casts Black people and Blackness out of those foundational modern categories whose definitions derive from the violent expulsion. To delineate, the article analyzes two paradigmatic texts that strive to deal uncompromisingly with an…
Antiblackness
Introduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human
Antiblackness of the Social and the Human
The black diaspora as genocide
Racismo não dá conta
Este artigo propõe que a categoria analítica "racismo" não é adequada para analisar as experiências de pessoas negras, seja no Brasil, seja no restante da diáspora. Por supor que experiências negras e experiências não negras são análogas e, portanto, comensuráveis, o racismo não dá conta da singularidade das experiências negras. De fato, as pessoas negras ocupam uma posição única na constituição das subjetividades modernas. Constituindo as identi…
The Denial of Antiblackness
Black Disidentification
This article explores dimensions of a foundational social antagonism that, the author claims, characterizes the Brazilian polis, by analyzing the ways in which the problem of Black presence manifested itself in the 2013 mass street protests and the rolezinhos (literally cruises, or little strolls). The author makes an initial analysis of the drastic policy changes brought about by the two Lula federal administrations, in particular their emphasis…
Taking Back the Land
As Brazil prepares for hosting the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games—both of which will feature Rio de Janeiro prominently—what do patterns of social representation and state repression of predominantly Afrodescended communities say about the symbolic, political, and material dimensions of current black experiences in Brazil? This article focuses on the November 2010 massive police–military operations that targeted Vila Cruzeiro and the C…
Gendered antiblackness and the impossible Brazilian project
A new generation of black Brazilian scholar-activists is asking critical questions about the polity's nature and process. No longer restricted to Brazilian white-dominated, Eurocentric academic canons and rituals, these black voices, rooted in collective efforts aimed against ubiquitous and persistent gendered antiblack discriminatory practices, challenge the social world's cognitive and political machinery. Sônia Santos, Jaime Alves, Luciane Roc…
State of White Supremacy
The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide
The ongoing marginalization and premature, preventable death of disproportionate numbers of black persons in the African diaspora create the very conditions for the revolutionary transformation of our societies. Antiblack genocide generates the imperatives of liberation and revolution. Either we begin to address, redress, and do away with what makes possible the multiple facets of antiblack genocide or we succumb to the dehumanizing values that p…
Jazz and Male Blackness
This essay focuses on the jazz jam sessions of the World Stage—a storefront workshop and performance space in Leimert Park, South Central Los Angeles, founded in 1992 by poet Kamau Daaood and legendary drummer Billy Higgins. It draws on ethnographic data collected over 26 months of continuous observant participation as a performer and ethnographer starting January 1996. I argue that Leimert's coexisting and conflicting social perspectives (a) can…
The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide
In this article I analyze the theoretical and practical outcomes of the alliances between Black activists in South Central Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, organizing against the effects of white supremacy—police abuse and housing segregation among them. I develop an argument that locates state- and society-sanctioned manifestations of anti-Black genocide and posits the imperative of radical analysis, action, and liberation. To do so, I fi…
When a Favela Dared to Become a Gated Condominium
An analysis of the key political events that led to the installation of gates and cameras around Jacarezinho, the second-largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, in July 2001 and the reaction to them by the news media is here framed by ethnographic data gathered since June 2001 among Afro-Brazilian activists in Rio de Janeiro. Study of the newspaper coverage of the creation of the "favela-condominium" and the public debate that followed shows that such …
Black Radical Becoming
In this article, I develop an argument about the radical nature of black politics that is based on individual and collective becoming. The process of becoming is immanent to blackness, which can be understood as a dynamic collective reservoir marked by time, space, and power. Such collective reservoir is not only in constant transformation, but also can be accessed though countless routes - for example, art, spirituality, and political organizing…
Genocide in the African Diaspora
Inspired by the multidimensional concept of genocide suggested by Patterson and his collaborators in 1951, I advance an argument for the necessity of coming to terms with the deadly, often state- and society-sanctioned, yet seldom overt contemporary campaigns against peoples of African descent. Approached from various angles, genocide allows us to understand seemingly disparate phenomena as they relate to each other, contributing to the continued…
Apartheid brasileiro
Neste artigo descrevo os eventos políticos principais que, em julho de 2001, levaram à instalação de portões e câmeras em volta do Jacarezinho, a segunda maior favela do Rio de Janeiro, e as imediatas reações negativas a essas medidas na imprensa - especialmente jornais e redes de TV. Analiso essas reações a partir de dados etnográficos que tenho coletado desde junho de 2001 no Rio de Janeiro, quando iniciei um trabalho de colaboração com ativist…
Hyperconsciousness of Race and Its Negation
Brazilian social relations—their practices and their representations—are marked by a hyperconsciousness of race. Such hyperconsciousness, while symptomatic of how Brazilians classify and position themselves in the life world, is manifested by the often vehement negation of the importance of race. This negation forcefully suggests that race is neither an analytical and morally valid tool, nor plays a central role in determining Brazilian social hi…
The Los Angeles Times’ Coverage of the 1992 Rebellion
Focusing on staff writers’ articles and editorials published in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, this article examines the Los Angeles Times by paying attention to how race in general, and African Americans in particular, were depicted in its pages. What notions of society emerge from this newspaper’s coverage of the 29 April 1992 civil unrest following the acquital of four police officers accused of brutalizing Rodney King? How do rep…
When a Favela Dared to Become a Gated Condominium
An analysis of the key political events that led to the installation of gates and cameras around Jacarezinho, the second-largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, in July 2001 and the reaction to them by the news media is here framed by ethnographic data gathered since June 2001 among Afro-Brazilian activists in Rio de Janeiro. Study of the newspaper coverage of the creation of the "favela-condominium" and the public debate that followed shows that such …
Apartheid brasileiro
Neste artigo descrevo os eventos políticos principais que, em julho de 2001, levaram à instalação de portões e câmeras em volta do Jacarezinho, a segunda maior favela do Rio de Janeiro, e as imediatas reações negativas a essas medidas na imprensa - especialmente jornais e redes de TV. Analiso essas reações a partir de dados etnográficos que tenho coletado desde junho de 2001 no Rio de Janeiro, quando iniciei um trabalho de colaboração com ativist…
Racismo não dá conta
Este artigo propõe que a categoria analítica "racismo" não é adequada para analisar as experiências de pessoas negras, seja no Brasil, seja no restante da diáspora. Por supor que experiências negras e experiências não negras são análogas e, portanto, comensuráveis, o racismo não dá conta da singularidade das experiências negras. De fato, as pessoas negras ocupam uma posição única na constituição das subjetividades modernas. Constituindo as identi…
Taking Back the Land
As Brazil prepares for hosting the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games—both of which will feature Rio de Janeiro prominently—what do patterns of social representation and state repression of predominantly Afrodescended communities say about the symbolic, political, and material dimensions of current black experiences in Brazil? This article focuses on the November 2010 massive police–military operations that targeted Vila Cruzeiro and the C…
Genocide in the African Diaspora
Inspired by the multidimensional concept of genocide suggested by Patterson and his collaborators in 1951, I advance an argument for the necessity of coming to terms with the deadly, often state- and society-sanctioned, yet seldom overt contemporary campaigns against peoples of African descent. Approached from various angles, genocide allows us to understand seemingly disparate phenomena as they relate to each other, contributing to the continued…
Gendered antiblackness and the impossible Brazilian project
A new generation of black Brazilian scholar-activists is asking critical questions about the polity's nature and process. No longer restricted to Brazilian white-dominated, Eurocentric academic canons and rituals, these black voices, rooted in collective efforts aimed against ubiquitous and persistent gendered antiblack discriminatory practices, challenge the social world's cognitive and political machinery. Sônia Santos, Jaime Alves, Luciane Roc…
Black Disidentification
This article explores dimensions of a foundational social antagonism that, the author claims, characterizes the Brazilian polis, by analyzing the ways in which the problem of Black presence manifested itself in the 2013 mass street protests and the rolezinhos (literally cruises, or little strolls). The author makes an initial analysis of the drastic policy changes brought about by the two Lula federal administrations, in particular their emphasis…
Black Radical Becoming
In this article, I develop an argument about the radical nature of black politics that is based on individual and collective becoming. The process of becoming is immanent to blackness, which can be understood as a dynamic collective reservoir marked by time, space, and power. Such collective reservoir is not only in constant transformation, but also can be accessed though countless routes - for example, art, spirituality, and political organizing…
The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide
In this article I analyze the theoretical and practical outcomes of the alliances between Black activists in South Central Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, organizing against the effects of white supremacy—police abuse and housing segregation among them. I develop an argument that locates state- and society-sanctioned manifestations of anti-Black genocide and posits the imperative of radical analysis, action, and liberation. To do so, I fi…
The Los Angeles Times’ Coverage of the 1992 Rebellion
Focusing on staff writers’ articles and editorials published in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, this article examines the Los Angeles Times by paying attention to how race in general, and African Americans in particular, were depicted in its pages. What notions of society emerge from this newspaper’s coverage of the 29 April 1992 civil unrest following the acquital of four police officers accused of brutalizing Rodney King? How do rep…
Estado da Arte nos estudos e pesquisas sobre Cidades, Urbanização e Relações Étnico-Raciais, e Enunciados sobre o Dossiê Cidades Negras no Brasil e nas Américas
O presente texto tem como objetivo apresentar o estado da arte sobre a cidade, a urbanização e as relações étnico-raciais no Brasil, em especial, as pólis e os territórios negros. Posteriormente, apresentamos os textos que constituem o dossiê, Cidades Negras nas Américas: a produção de políticas de enfrentamento ao racismo. Por último, é urgente a produção de ensino, pesquisa e extensão sobre as cidades brasileiras com ênfase nas relações étnico-…
More Than and Beyond Racism
This article keys in on antiblackness and distinguishes it from racism, laying bare the false universality of the Social and the Human: Racism takes place in the Social among the Human, while antiblackness continually casts Black people and Blackness out of those foundational modern categories whose definitions derive from the violent expulsion. To delineate, the article analyzes two paradigmatic texts that strive to deal uncompromisingly with an…
Hyperconsciousness of Race and Its Negation
Brazilian social relations—their practices and their representations—are marked by a hyperconsciousness of race. Such hyperconsciousness, while symptomatic of how Brazilians classify and position themselves in the life world, is manifested by the often vehement negation of the importance of race. This negation forcefully suggests that race is neither an analytical and morally valid tool, nor plays a central role in determining Brazilian social hi…
The Los Angeles Times’ Coverage of the 1992 Rebellion
Focusing on staff writers’ articles and editorials published in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, this article examines the Los Angeles Times by paying attention to how race in general, and African Americans in particular, were depicted in its pages. What notions of society emerge from this newspaper’s coverage of the 29 April 1992 civil unrest following the acquital of four police officers accused of brutalizing Rodney King? How do rep…
Genocide in the African Diaspora
Inspired by the multidimensional concept of genocide suggested by Patterson and his collaborators in 1951, I advance an argument for the necessity of coming to terms with the deadly, often state- and society-sanctioned, yet seldom overt contemporary campaigns against peoples of African descent. Approached from various angles, genocide allows us to understand seemingly disparate phenomena as they relate to each other, contributing to the continued…
Apartheid brasileiro
Neste artigo descrevo os eventos políticos principais que, em julho de 2001, levaram à instalação de portões e câmeras em volta do Jacarezinho, a segunda maior favela do Rio de Janeiro, e as imediatas reações negativas a essas medidas na imprensa - especialmente jornais e redes de TV. Analiso essas reações a partir de dados etnográficos que tenho coletado desde junho de 2001 no Rio de Janeiro, quando iniciei um trabalho de colaboração com ativist…
When a Favela Dared to Become a Gated Condominium
An analysis of the key political events that led to the installation of gates and cameras around Jacarezinho, the second-largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, in July 2001 and the reaction to them by the news media is here framed by ethnographic data gathered since June 2001 among Afro-Brazilian activists in Rio de Janeiro. Study of the newspaper coverage of the creation of the "favela-condominium" and the public debate that followed shows that such …
Black Radical Becoming
In this article, I develop an argument about the radical nature of black politics that is based on individual and collective becoming. The process of becoming is immanent to blackness, which can be understood as a dynamic collective reservoir marked by time, space, and power. Such collective reservoir is not only in constant transformation, but also can be accessed though countless routes - for example, art, spirituality, and political organizing…
Jazz and Male Blackness
This essay focuses on the jazz jam sessions of the World Stage—a storefront workshop and performance space in Leimert Park, South Central Los Angeles, founded in 1992 by poet Kamau Daaood and legendary drummer Billy Higgins. It draws on ethnographic data collected over 26 months of continuous observant participation as a performer and ethnographer starting January 1996. I argue that Leimert's coexisting and conflicting social perspectives (a) can…
The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide
In this article I analyze the theoretical and practical outcomes of the alliances between Black activists in South Central Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, organizing against the effects of white supremacy—police abuse and housing segregation among them. I develop an argument that locates state- and society-sanctioned manifestations of anti-Black genocide and posits the imperative of radical analysis, action, and liberation. To do so, I fi…
The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide
The ongoing marginalization and premature, preventable death of disproportionate numbers of black persons in the African diaspora create the very conditions for the revolutionary transformation of our societies. Antiblack genocide generates the imperatives of liberation and revolution. Either we begin to address, redress, and do away with what makes possible the multiple facets of antiblack genocide or we succumb to the dehumanizing values that p…
State of White Supremacy
Gendered antiblackness and the impossible Brazilian project
A new generation of black Brazilian scholar-activists is asking critical questions about the polity's nature and process. No longer restricted to Brazilian white-dominated, Eurocentric academic canons and rituals, these black voices, rooted in collective efforts aimed against ubiquitous and persistent gendered antiblack discriminatory practices, challenge the social world's cognitive and political machinery. Sônia Santos, Jaime Alves, Luciane Roc…
Taking Back the Land
As Brazil prepares for hosting the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games—both of which will feature Rio de Janeiro prominently—what do patterns of social representation and state repression of predominantly Afrodescended communities say about the symbolic, political, and material dimensions of current black experiences in Brazil? This article focuses on the November 2010 massive police–military operations that targeted Vila Cruzeiro and the C…
Black Disidentification
This article explores dimensions of a foundational social antagonism that, the author claims, characterizes the Brazilian polis, by analyzing the ways in which the problem of Black presence manifested itself in the 2013 mass street protests and the rolezinhos (literally cruises, or little strolls). The author makes an initial analysis of the drastic policy changes brought about by the two Lula federal administrations, in particular their emphasis…
The Denial of Antiblackness
The black diaspora as genocide
Racismo não dá conta
Este artigo propõe que a categoria analítica "racismo" não é adequada para analisar as experiências de pessoas negras, seja no Brasil, seja no restante da diáspora. Por supor que experiências negras e experiências não negras são análogas e, portanto, comensuráveis, o racismo não dá conta da singularidade das experiências negras. De fato, as pessoas negras ocupam uma posição única na constituição das subjetividades modernas. Constituindo as identi…
Antiblackness
Introduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human
Antiblackness of the Social and the Human
More Than and Beyond Racism
This article keys in on antiblackness and distinguishes it from racism, laying bare the false universality of the Social and the Human: Racism takes place in the Social among the Human, while antiblackness continually casts Black people and Blackness out of those foundational modern categories whose definitions derive from the violent expulsion. To delineate, the article analyzes two paradigmatic texts that strive to deal uncompromisingly with an…
Estado da Arte nos estudos e pesquisas sobre Cidades, Urbanização e Relações Étnico-Raciais, e Enunciados sobre o Dossiê Cidades Negras no Brasil e nas Américas
O presente texto tem como objetivo apresentar o estado da arte sobre a cidade, a urbanização e as relações étnico-raciais no Brasil, em especial, as pólis e os territórios negros. Posteriormente, apresentamos os textos que constituem o dossiê, Cidades Negras nas Américas: a produção de políticas de enfrentamento ao racismo. Por último, é urgente a produção de ensino, pesquisa e extensão sobre as cidades brasileiras com ênfase nas relações étnico-…
Mais que e para-além do racismo
Este artigo tece considerações sobre antinegritude e a distingue do racismo, expondo a falsa universalidade do Social e do Humano: o racismo ocorre no Social entre os Humanos, enquanto a antinegritude continuamente expulsa os negros e a negritude dessas categorias modernas fundamentais cujas definições derivam da expulsão violenta. Para delinear a discussão, o artigo analisa dois textos paradigmáticos que se esforçam para lidar intransigentemente…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)