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"I Thought I Was Going to Die like Him": Racial Authoritarianism and the Afterlife of George Floyd in the United States and Brazil.
- Source :
- Social Sciences (2076-0760); Jun2024, Vol. 13 Issue 6, p299, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper offers a brief yet comprehensive comparative analysis of historical and contemporary racial authoritarian violence in the United States and Brazil. Utilizing Black feminist historian and literary scholar Saidiya Hartman's theorization of the "afterlife of slavery" and Michael Dawson's linked fate, I examine how the processes of racialization and the racial logics of subordination have and continue to shape the contours of Black life in the United States and in Brazil. Moreover, in this work, I interrogate the afterlife of George Floyd and the afterlives of Black Brazilian victims and survivors of racial authoritarian violence; the political, transnational, and symbolic impacts of Floyd's death; and Diasporic understandings of linked fate on racial authoritarian violence between Black communities in the United States and in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- KILLINGS by police
RACE discrimination
AFTERLIFE
AUTHORITARIANISM
BLACK feminists
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20760760
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Sciences (2076-0760)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178194923
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13060299