Open Access Edition of Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice by Quito J. Swan

FAIN: DR-279980-21

University of Florida (Gainesville, FL 32611-0001)
Romina Gutierrez (Project Director: December 2020 to July 2023)

This project will publish the book Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice, written by NEH Fellow Quito J. Swan (NEH grant number FA-57763-14), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, specifically CC BY-NC-ND, making it available for free download and distribution. The hardback and epdf version of this book was published in April 2020 by the University Press of Florida. Dr. Quito Swan will be paid a royalty of $600 upon release of the open access ebook.

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Publication Type: Single Publication
Title: Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice
Year: 2021
ISBN: 9780813070032
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Author: Quito J. Swan
Abstract: 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.
Primary URL: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813066417
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Secondary URL: https://dloc.com/AA00082286/00001/pdf/0
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URL 3: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/227/oa_monograph/book/74869
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URL 4: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv10kmbwz
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Type: Single author monograph

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