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Toward a Geography of Solidarity: Afro‐Nicaraguan Women's Land Activism and Autonomy in the S outh C aribbean C oast Autonomous Region
Author(s) -
MORRIS COURTNEY DESIREE
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12490
Subject(s) - solidarity , autonomy , racism , gender studies , state (computer science) , politics , articulation (sociology) , power (physics) , creole language , political science , racialization , underdevelopment , sociology , oppression , economic justice , race (biology) , law , linguistics , philosophy , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
This article explores efforts by A fro‐ N icaraguan women activists to enact their communal land rights in B luefields 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 C osteños , including poor M estizos. 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.