Overview

This is an open event of the CES Summer School Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence | CES Alta, Coimbra, Portugal | June 26-30, 2023. 

Reflecting on long-term collaborations with Black political and artistic collectives in Brazil and the U.S., including the Black Panthers and jazz musicians at the World Stage in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, this masterclas explores necessary distinctions between racism and antiblackness. It proposes that in the realm of antiblackness, abolition fulfills Frantz Fanon's maxim that 'the real leap consists of introducing invention into existence.'


Bio note

João H. Costa Vargas is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at The University of California, Riverside (2017-). Vargas has authored and co-authored more than seven books, amongst which Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles (2006), Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopia in Black Diaspora Communities (2008), State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States (with Moon-Kie Jung and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2010), Antinegritude: O Impossível Sujeito Negro na Formação Social Brasileira (with Osmundo Pinho, 2016), Motim: Horizontes do Genocídio Antinegro na Diáspora (with Ana Luiza Flauzina, 2017), The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering (2018), and Antiblackness (with Moon-Kie Jung, 2021). Costa Vargas is also a member of the UC Riverside based Unbound Collective, which strives to envision Black futures that are liberating, imaginary, and Queer and Trans affirming.
 

This activity is sponsored by Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD)