ISBN:
9781479885084
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 333 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Black power series
DDC:
995
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Panafrikanismus
;
Antikolonialismus
;
Schwarze
;
Pazifischer Raum
;
Decolonization / Melanesia / History
;
Black nationalism / Melanesia
;
Black power / Melanesia
;
Blacks / Melanesia / Social conditions
;
African diaspora / History / 20th century
;
Pan-Africanism
;
Melanesia / Politics and government / 20th century
;
Pazifischer Raum
;
Schwarze
;
Panafrikanismus
;
Antikolonialismus
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Garvey's Caveat : Pan-Africanism and the Pacific -- Negroids of the Pacific : West Papua, Senegal, and Negritude -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal : Black women's internationalism in Australia -- Black power in Papua New Guinea -- Melanesia's way : Papua New Guinea and the Black Pacific -- Black Pacific festivals : FESTAC, Nigeria, and Oceania -- POVAI : Fiji, Pacific women, and a nuclear free Pacific -- : Black liberation in Kanaky -- One single front against imperialism : Libya, New Caledonia, and Oceania -- Blacks must rule Vanua
Abstract:
"Pasifika Black details how liberation struggles in Oceania engaged Black internationalism in their fights against French, British, Indonesia, and Australian colonialisms. It explores how these diverse and uneven efforts informed political movements across the Black Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Ocean worlds, linking Black metropoles across Suva, Brisbane, Harlem (s), Paris, Lagos, Tripoli and Dakar. Its protagonists include playwrights, visual artists, environmental activists, martyrs, religious leaders, musicians, revolutionaries, students, and poets who globally carried the banners, books and bibles of Black Power, Negritude, the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific, Black liberation theology, Pan-Africanism and the Pacific Women's Conference. Pasifika Black puts Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal's 1976 call for a Black Pacific into an extended conversation with Nigeria's Wole Soyinke, Samoa's Albert Wendt, Fiji's Amelia Rokotuivuna, the NAACP's Roy Wilkins, West Papua's, Negritude's Aimé Césaire, Kanak leader Dewe Gorodey and Polynesian Panther Will. Based on research conducted across Fiji, Australia, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Britain and the United States, the book's archival arsenal includes photographs, government surveillance, diaries, audio-visuals, revolutionary print media, artwork, novels, oral traditions, songs, and ephemera. It maps our conceptually gendered geographies of the women, men, and imaginations of Black internationalism into the universities, reservations, nakamals, plantations, villages, harbors, churches, concrete jungles and European imagined boundaries of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. In a world grappling with the global significance of Black Lives Matter and state sanctioned violence against Black and Brown bodies, Pasifika Black is a both triumphant history and tragic reminder of the ongoing quests for decolonization in Oceania, the African world and the Global South"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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