Courtney Desiree Morris

To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua examines how black women activists on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present.

To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua examines how black women activists on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present.