TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a Geography of Solidarity
T2 - Afro-Nicaraguan Women's Land Activism and Autonomy in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region
AU - Morris, Courtney Desiree
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - This article explores efforts by Afro-Nicaraguan women activists to enact their communal land rights in Bluefields during a 2009 land occupation. Creole women's interpretation of state power, underdevelopment, and the failure of the autonomy process suggest that a critical race understanding of regional politics not only reveals the persistence of structural anti-black racism but also demonstrates how the state's disregard for the region as the nation's imagined site of racial Otherness harms all Costeños, including poor Mestizos. Creole women's articulation of a geography of solidarity rooted in racial justice rather than blame offers new strategies for confronting regional inequality and state neglect in the construction of regional autonomy.
AB - This article explores efforts by Afro-Nicaraguan women activists to enact their communal land rights in Bluefields during a 2009 land occupation. Creole women's interpretation of state power, underdevelopment, and the failure of the autonomy process suggest that a critical race understanding of regional politics not only reveals the persistence of structural anti-black racism but also demonstrates how the state's disregard for the region as the nation's imagined site of racial Otherness harms all Costeños, including poor Mestizos. Creole women's articulation of a geography of solidarity rooted in racial justice rather than blame offers new strategies for confronting regional inequality and state neglect in the construction of regional autonomy.
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U2 - 10.1111/blar.12490
DO - 10.1111/blar.12490
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973117934
VL - 35
SP - 355
EP - 369
JO - Bulletin of Latin American Research
JF - Bulletin of Latin American Research
SN - 0261-3050
IS - 3
ER -