INTRODUCTION Black Women’s Activism in Dangerous Times

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE An Unexpected Uprising? ix
4. INTRODUCTION Black Women’s Activism in Dangerous Times 1
5. Part 1 GENEALOGIES
6. 1 • GRAND DAMES, GARVEYITES, AND OBEAH WOMEN State Violence, Regional Radicalisms, and Unruly Femininities in the Mosquitia 33
7. 2 • ENTRE EL ROJO Y NEGRO Black Women’s Social Memory and the Sandinista Revolution 63
8. Part 2 MULTICULTURAL DISPOSSESSION
9. 3 • CRUISE SHIPS, CALL CENTERS, AND CHAMBA Managing Autonomy and Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Era 95
10. 4 • DANGEROUS LOCATIONS Black Suffering, Mestizo Victimhood, and the Geography of Blame in the Struggle for Land Rights 125
11. Part 3 RESISTING STATE VIOLENCE
12. 5 • “SEE HOW DE BLOOD DEY RUN” Sexual Violence, Silence, and the Politics of Intimate Solidarity 153
13. 6 • FROM AUTONOMY TO AUTOCRACY Development, Multicultural Dispossession, and the Authoritarian Turn 180
14. CONCLUSION Transition in Saeculae Saeculorum 210
15. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 219
16. NOTES 223
17. REFERENCES 237
18. INDEX 257
19. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 271