African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book
Prize A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020
Honorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty
Legacy Foundation Award Finalist, Association for the Study of
African American Life and History Book Prize 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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