Courtney Desiree Morris

To Defend This Sunrise

Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua

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Produktbeschreibung

To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua examines how black women activists on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781978804807
• ISBN-10: 1978804806
• Artikelnr.: 63562647

Autorenporträt

Courtney Desiree Morris is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: An Unexpected Uprising?
Introduction: Black Women’s Activism in Dangerous Times
Part I: Genealogies
1 Grand Dames, Garveyites, and Obeah Women: State Violence, Regional
Radicalisms, and Unruly Femininities in the Mosquitia
2 Entre el Rojo y Negro: Black Women’s Social Memory and the Sandinista
Revolution
Part II: Multicultural Dispossession
3 Cruise Ships, Call Centers, and Chamba: Managing Autonomy and
Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Era
4 Dangerous Locations: Black Suffering, Mestizo Victimhood, and the
Geography of Blame in the Struggle for Land Rights
Part III: Resisting State Violence
5 “See how de blood dey run”: Sexual Violence, Silence, and the Politics of
Intimate Solidarity
6 From Autonomy to Autocracy: Development, Multicultural Dispossession, and
the Authoritarian Turn
Conclusion: Transition in Saeculae Saeculorum
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index