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About this book
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Finalist, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize
Honorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020
Winner of the African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book Prize
Bermuda Literary Awards Dr. Eva Hodgson Prize for Non-Fiction
Pauulu’s Diaspora is a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth-century environmental activist Pauulu Kamarakafego. Challenging U.S.-centered views of Black Power, Quito Swan offers a radically broader perspective, showing how Kamarakafego helped connect liberation efforts of the African diaspora throughout the Global South.
Born in Bermuda and with formative experiences in Cuba, Kamarakafego was aware at an early age of the effects of colonialism and the international scope of racism and segregation. After pursuing graduate studies in ecological engineering, he traveled to Africa, where he was inspired by the continent’s independence struggles and contributed to various sustainable development movements. Swan explores Kamarakafego’s remarkable fusion of political agitation and scientific expertise and traces his emergence as a central coordinator of major black internationalist conferences. Despite government surveillance, Kamarakafego built a network of black organizers that reached from Kenya to the islands of Oceania and included such figures as C. L. R. James, Queen Mother Audley Moore, Kwame Nkrumah, Sonia Sanchez, Sylvia Hill, Malcolm X, Vanessa Griffen, and Stokely Carmichael.
In a riveting narrative that runs through Caribbean sugarcane fields, Liberian rubber plantations, and Papua New Guinean rainforests, Pauulu’s Diaspora recognizes a global leader who has largely been absent from scholarship. In doing so, it brings to light little-known relationships among Black Power, pan-Africanism, and environmental justice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Corner Stones: Hamilton, Harlem, and Havana
- 2. Twenty-One-Gun Salute: Armed and Dangerous in Orangeburg
- 3. Liberia: First-Class Africa
- 4. Kenya: All of Africa Is on Our Backs
- 5. Anansi’s Revolution
- 6. Black Power in the Caribbean, Signed Stokely Carmichael
- 7. Aborigine—Not Puerto Rican!
- 8. Minecrafting a Black World: The Sixth Pan-African Congress
- 9. Les Nouvelles-Hébrides sont le pays des noirs
- 10. Papua New Guinea: A House for Every Family
- 11. Environmental Justice: A Global Agenda for Pan-Africanism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author