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To Defend This Sunrise

Morris, Courtney Desiree

2023

Overview

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 century, black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political, economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the Sandinista state's co-optation of multicultural discourse and growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new forms of \"multicultural dispossession.\" This concept describes the ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal practices and policies that undermine black political demands and weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims of these activists against the state.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: 1990 / activist strategies / African Studies / Afro-Caribbean / Afro-descendant land rights / Afro-Latinx / Afro-Latinx resistance / authoritarianism / authoritarianism Nicaragua / black activism / black feminist organizing / Black people / black political movements / black politics / black resistance Latin America / Black Studies (Global) / black suffering / Black women activism Nicaragua / black women resisting repression / Bluefields / Caribbean / Caribbean & Latin American / Caribbean coast Nicaragua / Caribbean culture / Caribbean diaspora / Caribbean history / Caribbean identity / Caribbean literature / Civil rights / Civil rights-Nicaragua / Daniel Ortega / democratic recognition / Discrimination & Race Relations / economic downfall / economic exclusion Nicaragua / economic struggle / female oppression / Feminist & Women's Studies / feminist activism / grassroots activism / Indigenous peoples / intersectional activism / intersectional activism, Afro-descendant land rights, black women resisting repression, postcolonial Nicaragua, Afro-Latinx resistance, Latin American racial order, race and politics Central America, black feminist organizing, black political movements, authoritarianism Nicaragua, transnational activism, Nicaraguan black feminism, territorial dispossession, black resistance Latin America, economic exclusion Nicaragua, multicultural dispossession, Caribbean coast Nicaragua, Black women activism Nicaragua, black activism, feminist activism, Nicaragua, Nicaraguan culture, South American activism, neoliberalism, grassroots activism, Sandinista, political repression, economic struggle, economic downfall, Daniel Ortega, Rosario Murillo, multicultural rhetoric, activist strategies, authoritarianism, democratic recognition, black politics, racism, racially motivated oppression, state violence, multicultural nationalism, nationalism, Obeah women, black suffering, Mestizo victimhood, sexual violence against women, female oppression, Caribbean, Latin American, Slavery, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, Caribbean culture, Caribbean diaspora, Caribbean history, Caribbean identity, Caribbean literature / Latin American / Latin American racial order / Latin American Studies / Mestizo victimhood / multicultural dispossession / multicultural nationalism / multicultural rhetoric / Multiculturalism / nationalism / neoliberalism / Nicaragua / Nicaraguan black feminism / Nicaraguan culture / Obeah women / Political activity / political repression / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / General / Politics and government / postcolonial Nicaragua / race and politics Central America / racially motivated oppression / racism / Rosario Murillo / Sandinista / sexual violence against women / Slavery / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / General / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / Social sciences / Sociology / South American activism / state violence / territorial dispossession / transnational activism / Women's Studies / Women, Black / World
• ISBN: 9781978804838, 1978804830, 9781978804807, 1978804806, 9781978804814, 9781978804791, 1978804792, 1978804814