Never meant to survive

"Never Meant to Survive presents a historical, political, and social assessment of anti-Black genocide and liberatory struggles that arose to resist it. Based on fine-grained accounts of community life at the street level, Joao H. Costa Vargas's work considers crucial examples of political resistance and community activism. The 1965 and 1992 riots in Los Angeles, the work of the Black Panther Party and favela activists in Brazil, and police brutality in struggles between Black communities and the state in both L.A. and Rio de Janeiro all figure importantly in this account."--Jacket