{"product_id":"black-autonomy-9781503600546","title":"Black Autonomy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated. In Nicaragua, Afrodescendants have mobilized to confront this state of siege through the politics of black autonomy. For women and men grappling with postwar violence, black autonomy has its own cultural meanings as a political aspiration and a way of crafting selfhood and solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJennifer Goett's ethnography examines the race and gender politics of activism for autonomous rights in an Afrodescendant. Creole community in Nicaragua. Weaving together fifteen years of research, \u003ci\u003eBlack Autonomy\u003c\/i\u003e follows this community-based movement from its inception in the late 1990s to its realization as an autonomous territory in 2009 and beyond. Goett argues that despite significant gains in multicultural recognition, Afro-Nicaraguan Creoles continue to grapple with the day-to-day violence of capitalist intensification, racialized policing, and drug war militarization in their territories. Activists have responded by adopting a politics of autonomy based on race pride, territoriality, self-determination, and self-defense. \u003ci\u003eBlack Autonomy\u003c\/i\u003e shows how this political radicalism is rooted in African diasporic identification and gendered cultural practices that women and men use to assert control over their bodies, labor, and spaces in an atmosphere of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jennifer Goett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955897307254,"sku":"9781503600546","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_10b30963-2e3d-402a-b3b9-60d2245a46f4.jpg?v=1767716934","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/black-autonomy-9781503600546","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}