TY - GEN T1 - To defend this sunrise : Black women's activism and the authoritarian turn in Nicaragua A1 - Morris, Courtney Desiree LA - English PP - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1355220490 AB - "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"-- OP - 269 NO - Description based upon print version of record. CN - HQ1236.5.N5 M67 2023 SN - 9781978804814 SN - 1978804814 SN - 9781978804838 SN - 1978804830 SN - 9781978804791 SN - 1978804792 SN - 9781978804807 SN - 1978804806 KW - Women, Black : Political activity : Nicaragua : Bluefields. KW - Civil rights : Nicaragua. KW - Multiculturalism : Nicaragua. KW - Black people : Nicaragua : Politics and government. KW - Indigenous peoples : Nicaragua : Politics and government. KW - Nicaragua : Politics and government : 1990- KW - Autochtones : Nicaragua : Politique et gouvernement. KW - Multiculturalisme : Nicaragua. KW - Femmes noires : Activité politique : Nicaragua : Bluefields. KW - Personnes noires : Nicaragua : Politique et gouvernement. KW - Nicaragua : Politique et gouvernement : 1990-1996. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. KW - Black people : Politics and government KW - Civil rights KW - Indigenous peoples : Politics and government KW - Multiculturalism KW - Politics and government KW - Women, Black : Political activity KW - Nicaragua KW - Nicaragua : Bluefields KW - Since 1990 ER -