Courtney Desiree Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 158954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Courtney Desiree Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Courtney Desiree |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Guest Editors' Note
Talking to the Dead
Orisha Wedding
Oya, Wind is our Teacher: A Conversation with the Guest Editors
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (review)
To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, an…
To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Commentaries
Seeing Stories Beneath the Surface: In a small Louisiana town swallowed up by the petrochemical industry, photographs capture haunting scenes of memory and Black place-making
When a massive star dies, when it runs out of energy, it collapses on itself. Its gravitational force pulls all its constituent matter inward, creating what is known as a black hole. While it may a
Ortega Faces a New Nicaraguan Opposition Movement
The heterogeneity and decentralized character of the protest movement is proving to be its greatest strength and weakness
Becoming Creole, Becoming Black: Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and the Many Lives of Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena
This article examines the complex life of one of the Universal Negro Improvement Association’s most charismatic but undertheorized figures, Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena. Relegated to the footnotes of UNIA history, the existing version of de Mena’s biography identifies her as an Afro-Nicaraguan immigrant who rose to the upper echelons of the UNIA. After years of serving as assistant international organizer and electrifying audiences through…
Toward a Geography of Solidarity: Afro-Nicaraguan Women's Land Activism and Autonomy in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region
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 n…
Where It Hurts: 2014 Year in Review
Anthropologists have increasingly used the term public anthropology to refer to a model of research and practice dedicated to bringing anthropological knowledge into public discourse to affect tangible social change (Low 2011). The increased visibility of what is variously referred to as public, engaged, activist, action, or applied anthropology challenges anthropologists to circulate their insights more widely and effectively in the public spher…
Política e identidad: Afrodescendientes en México y América Central
Primera entrega de una serie dedicada a la "Diáspora afrodescendiente en México y América Central", este volumen analiza los procesos políticos contemporáneos que atañen a las sociedades, grupos organizados, colectivos sociales e individuos calificados o autoconsiderados como "negros" o afrodescendientes. Los autores parten de estudios de caso y análisis teóricos, con textos que analizan la dimensión política de las organizaciones afrodescendient…
Where It Hurts: 2014 Year in Review
Anthropologists have increasingly used the term public anthropology to refer to a model of research and practice dedicated to bringing anthropological knowledge into public discourse to affect tangible social change (Low 2011). The increased visibility of what is variously referred to as public, engaged, activist, action, or applied anthropology challenges anthropologists to circulate their insights more widely and effectively in the public spher…
Toward a Geography of Solidarity: Afro-Nicaraguan Women's Land Activism and Autonomy in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region
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 n…
Becoming Creole, Becoming Black: Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and the Many Lives of Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena
This article examines the complex life of one of the Universal Negro Improvement Association’s most charismatic but undertheorized figures, Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena. Relegated to the footnotes of UNIA history, the existing version of de Mena’s biography identifies her as an Afro-Nicaraguan immigrant who rose to the upper echelons of the UNIA. After years of serving as assistant international organizer and electrifying audiences through…
Política e identidad: Afrodescendientes en México y América Central
Primera entrega de una serie dedicada a la "Diáspora afrodescendiente en México y América Central", este volumen analiza los procesos políticos contemporáneos que atañen a las sociedades, grupos organizados, colectivos sociales e individuos calificados o autoconsiderados como "negros" o afrodescendientes. Los autores parten de estudios de caso y análisis teóricos, con textos que analizan la dimensión política de las organizaciones afrodescendient…
Política e identidad: Afrodescendientes en México y América Central
Primera entrega de una serie dedicada a la "Diáspora afrodescendiente en México y América Central", este volumen analiza los procesos políticos contemporáneos que atañen a las sociedades, grupos organizados, colectivos sociales e individuos calificados o autoconsiderados como "negros" o afrodescendientes. Los autores parten de estudios de caso y análisis teóricos, con textos que analizan la dimensión política de las organizaciones afrodescendient…
Where It Hurts: 2014 Year in Review
Anthropologists have increasingly used the term public anthropology to refer to a model of research and practice dedicated to bringing anthropological knowledge into public discourse to affect tangible social change (Low 2011). The increased visibility of what is variously referred to as public, engaged, activist, action, or applied anthropology challenges anthropologists to circulate their insights more widely and effectively in the public spher…
Becoming Creole, Becoming Black: Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and the Many Lives of Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena
This article examines the complex life of one of the Universal Negro Improvement Association’s most charismatic but undertheorized figures, Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena. Relegated to the footnotes of UNIA history, the existing version of de Mena’s biography identifies her as an Afro-Nicaraguan immigrant who rose to the upper echelons of the UNIA. After years of serving as assistant international organizer and electrifying audiences through…
Toward a Geography of Solidarity: Afro-Nicaraguan Women's Land Activism and Autonomy in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region
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 n…
Ortega Faces a New Nicaraguan Opposition Movement
The heterogeneity and decentralized character of the protest movement is proving to be its greatest strength and weakness
Commentaries
Seeing Stories Beneath the Surface: In a small Louisiana town swallowed up by the petrochemical industry, photographs capture haunting scenes of memory and Black place-making
When a massive star dies, when it runs out of energy, it collapses on itself. Its gravitational force pulls all its constituent matter inward, creating what is known as a black hole. While it may a
To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, an…
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (review)
Guest Editors' Note
Talking to the Dead
Orisha Wedding
Oya, Wind is our Teacher: A Conversation with the Guest Editors
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Creole language (2 works)