LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua

LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua
Author: Karen Kampwirth
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2022-06-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0816542791

"LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua provides the previously untold history of the LGBTQ community's emergence as political actors-from revolutionary guerillas to civil rights activists"--

Why Nicaragua Vanished

Why Nicaragua Vanished
Author: Robert S. Leiken
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742523425

This book takes a closer look at the perceptions that Americans develop about foreign countries and the role the press plays in creating those perceptions.

Sandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to US Coercion

Sandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to US Coercion
Author: Héctor Perla (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 110711389X

This book traces the process through which Nicaraguans defeated US aggression in a highly unequal confrontation.

Washington's War on Nicaragua

Washington's War on Nicaragua
Author: Holly Sklar
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780896082953

An account of U.S. policy from the Sandinista revolution through the Iran-contra scandal and beyond. Sklar shows how the White House sabotaged peace negoatiations and sustained the deadly contra war despite public opposition, with secret U.S. special forces and an auxiliary arm of dictators, drug smugglers and death squad godfathers, and illuminates an alternative policy rooted in law and democracy.

Voices of Play

Voices of Play
Author: Amanda Minks
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 081659984X

While indigenous languages have become prominent in global political and educational discourses, limited attention has been given to indigenous children’s everyday communication. Voices of Play is a study of multilingual play and performance among Miskitu children growing up on Corn Island, part of a multi-ethnic autonomous region on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Corn Island is historically home to Afro-Caribbean Creole people, but increasing numbers of Miskitu people began moving there from the mainland during the Contra War, and many Spanish-speaking mestizos from western Nicaragua have also settled there. Miskitu kids on Corn Island often gain some competence speaking Miskitu, Spanish, and Kriol English. As the children of migrants and the first generation of their families to grow up with television, they develop creative forms of expression that combine languages and genres, shaping intercultural senses of belonging. Voices of Play is the first ethnography to focus on the interaction between music and language in children’s discourse. Minks skillfully weaves together Latin American, North American, and European theories of culture and communication, creating a transdisciplinary dialogue that moves across intellectual geographies. Her analysis shows how music and language involve a wide range of communicative resources that create new forms of belonging and enable dialogue across differences. Miskitu children’s voices reveal the intertwining of speech and song, the emergence of “self” and “other,” and the centrality of aesthetics to social struggle.

The Proletarian's Pocketbook

The Proletarian's Pocketbook
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Pattern Books
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8111808739

Inspired by Mao's Little Red Book, this work is full of quotes to inspire and teach revolution. With quotes from the Combahee River Collective, Mao, Lenin, bell hooks, Assata Shakur, 2pac, Malcolm X, Stalin, Les Feinberg, Fred Hampton, Fanon, and more, this book is bound to inspire the revolutionary spirit inside you and your comrades to organize, educate, and revolt! Full list of authors: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin Mumia Abu-Jamal Sundiata Acoli James Baldwin Amilcar Cabral Fidel Castro Che Guevara Combahee River Collective Angela Davis Dimitrov Frederick Douglass Friedrich Engels Frantz Fanon Les Feinberg Paulo Freire Anuradha Ghandy Fred Hampton Harry Haywood Ho Chi Min bell hooks Enver Hoxha Dolores Ibarruri Kim Il-Sung George Jackson Jonathan Jackson Marsha P. Johnson Claudia Jones Frida Kahlo Ghasson Kanafani Leila Khaled Martin Luther King, Jr. Alexandra Kollantai James and Grace Lee Boggs Vladimir Lenin Audre Lorde Rosa Luxemburg Nelson Mandela Mao Tse-Tung Sub Marcos José Mariátegui Carlos Marighella Karl Marx Chico Mendes Evo Morales Toni Morrison Huey P. Newton Kwame Nkrumah Michael Parenti Rashid Paul Robeson Walter Rodney Arundhati Roy Thomas Sankara Bobby Seale Chief Seattle Assata Shakur Tupac Shakur Nina Simone Bhagat Singh Joseph Stalin Sukarno Kwame Ture Malcolm X Xi Jinping Malala Yousafzai

What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution

What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution
Author: Dan La Botz
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004291318

This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN (‘the Sandinistas’), with politics principally shaped by Soviet and Cuban Communism, never had a commitment to genuine democracy either within the revolutionary movement or within society at large; that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that revolution was betrayed from the 1970s to the 1990s; and that the FSLN’s lack of rank-and-file democracy left all decision-making to the National Directorate and ultimately placed that power in the hands of Daniel Ortega. Pursuing his narrative into the present, La Botz shows that, once their would-be bureaucratic ruling class project was defeated, Ortega and the FSLN leadership turned to an alliance with the capitalist class.

The Güegüence

The Güegüence
Author: Daniel Garrison Brinton
Publisher: Philadelphia : D.G. Brinton
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1883
Genre: Indians of Central America
ISBN: