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This lecture, Anti-Blackness, oblique identification, and the specter of the Haitian Revolution by Dr.Joao H. Costa Vargas, was recorded at ICA Miami on October 5, 2019, as part of the "Anti-Blackness and the Americas" symposium organized by Jafari Allen and Gean Moreno.
Dr. Vargas was among the visiting faculty during the Art + Research Center Fall Semester, "The Black Hemisphere," in 2019. For more information on his seminar, visit: icamiami.org/seminar/dr-joao-h-costa-vargas.
João Costa Vargas is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California – Riverside. His publications include Catching Hell in the City of Angels (2006), Never Meant to Survive (2008), State of White Supremacy, co-edited by Moon-Kie Jung, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2011), and The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering (2018). His written work is a result of engaging individuals and collectives combating gendered antiblackness. It draws from collaborative projects in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Salvador (in Brazil), and in Austin and Los Angeles (in the United States.) The projects focus on and 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 hyper segregation, exposure to environmental hazards, and blocked access to health care and well-being. Exploring the possibility and terms of Black-nonblack collaboration, the projects aim at contributing to the imagination and practice of viable Black lifeworlds.
The Knight Foundation Art + Research Center (A+RC) is the museum’s research department and graduate-level initiative dedicated to fostering a more robust and critical dialogue in the South Florida region and beyond. Learn more at icamiami.org/arc.
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This lecture, Anti-Blackness, oblique identification, and the specter of the Haitian Revolution by Dr.Joao H. Costa Vargas, was recorded at ICA Miami on October 5, 2019, as part of the "Anti-Blackness and the Americas" symposium organized by Jafari Allen and Gean Moreno.
Dr. Vargas was among the visiting faculty during the Art + Research Center Fall Semester, "The Black Hemisphere," in 2019. For more information on his seminar, visit: icamiami.org/seminar/dr-joao-h-costa-vargas.
João Costa Vargas is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California – Riverside. His publications include Catching Hell in the City of Angels (2006), Never Meant to Survive (2008), State of White Supremacy, co-edited by Moon-Kie Jung, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2011), and The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering (2018). His written work is a result of engaging individuals and collectives combating gendered antiblackness. It draws from collaborative projects in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Salvador (in Brazil), and in Austin and Los Angeles (in the United States.) The projects focus on and 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 hyper segregation, exposure to environmental hazards, and blocked access to health care and well-being. Exploring the possibility and terms of Black-nonblack collaboration, the projects aim at contributing to the imagination and practice of viable Black lifeworlds.
The Knight Foundation Art + Research Center (A+RC) is the museum’s research department and graduate-level initiative dedicated to fostering a more robust and critical dialogue in the South Florida region and beyond. Learn more at icamiami.org/arc.
Stay connected: icamia.org/subscribe
Plan your visit: icamia.org/visit
Watch more on ICA Channel: icamia.org/channel
Membership means more at ICA Miami. Join today for expanded access to a world of innovative art and ideas: icamia.org/support
