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African Diaspora
Africana Studies
Africanization
Amiri Baraka
Author_Quito J. Swan
Black Beret Cadre
black internationalism
Black nationalism
black power
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climate change
Colonialism
Congress of African Peoples
Cuba
Decolonization
Environmental Justice
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Ernestine Hammond Kiano
Global South
Guyana
Harlem
indigenous technology
International Black Power Conference
Kenya
Kwame Nkrumah
Malcolm X
migration
Pan-African Congress
Pan-Africanism
Pauulu Kamarakafego
Progressive Labor Party
racism
Radical Black Diaspora
renewable energy
Ruth Stutts Njiri
Segregation
Stokely Carmichael
Sustainable development
United Fruit Company
West Indian
White Supremacy
Product details
- ISBN 9780813066417
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2020
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Quito J. Swan, professor of Africana studies and director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is the author of Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization.
