To defend this sunrise : Black women's activism and the authoritarian turn in Nicaragua

To defend this sunrise : Black women's activism and the authoritarian turn in Nicaragua / Courtney Desiree Morris.

"To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation's racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th...

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Main Author: Morris, Courtney Desiree (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Since 1990
Women, Black > Political activity > Nicaragua > Bluefields.
Civil rights > Nicaragua.
Multiculturalism > Nicaragua.
Black people > Nicaragua > Politics and government.
Indigenous peoples > Nicaragua > Politics and government.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Black people > Politics and government
Civil rights
Indigenous peoples > Politics and government
Multiculturalism
Politics and government
Women, Black > Political activity
Nicaragua > Politics and government > 1990-
Nicaragua
Nicaragua > Bluefields
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Black Women's Activism in Dangerous Times
  • Grand Dames, Garveyites, and Obeah Women: State Violence, Regional Radicalisms and Unruly Femininities in the Mosquitia
  • Entre el Rojo y Negro: Black Women's Social Memory and the Sandinista Revolution
  • Cruise Ships, Call Centers, and Chamba: Managing Autonomy and Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Era
  • Dangerous Locations: Black Suffering, Mestizo Victimhood, and the Geography of Blame in the Struggle for Land Rights
  • 'See how de blood dey run': Sexual Violence, Silence, and the Politics of Intimate Solidarity
  • From Autonomy to Autocracy: Development, Multicultural Dispossession, and the Authoritarian Turn
  • Conclusion: Transition In Saeculae Saeculorum.

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