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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

A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian OceansDespite its small landmass in relation to other continents, Oceania has been the site of large-scale political struggles and immensely significant historical processes. Pasifika Black is a compelling history of anti-colonial movements in this understudied region, exploring how Oceanic activists intentionally forged international connections in their fight for liberation.Drawing from research conducted across Fiji, Australia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Britain, and the United States, Quito Swan shows how liberation struggles in Oceania actively engaged Black internationalism in their diverse fights against colonial rule. Pasifika Black features as its protagonists the many playwrights, organizers, religious leaders, scholars, Black Power advocates, musicians, environmental justice activists, feminists, and revolutionaries who carried the banners of Black liberation across the globe. It puts artists like Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal and her 1976 call for a Black Pacific into an extended conversation with Nigeria's Wole Soyinka, the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific's Amelia Rokotuivuna, Samoa's Albert Wendt, anthropologist Angela Gilliam, the NAACP's Roy Wilkins, West Papua's Ben Tanggahma,New Caledonia's Déwé Gorodey, and Polynesian Panther Will'Ilolahia. In so doing, Swan displays the links Oceanic activists consciously and painstakingly formed in order to connect Black metropoles across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.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

Abstract
This essay is centered on Fiji's Pacific Women's Conference (PWC) of 1975. It adds to Africana scholarship by demonstrating how Black women's internationalism weaved across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean worlds. Organized by Fijian women such as Amelia Rokotuivuna, Claire Slatter, and Vanessa Griffen, the conference was a unified berth for Pacifica women to address the interlocking regional issues of gender, neocolonialism, ecological justice, human rights, ethnicity, race, culture, and sovereignty. These women helped transform Suva, Fiji, into a hub for Pacifica nationalist movements, such as the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement (NFIP). They also attended the United Nations World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975). Slatter and Griffen edited NFIP's newsletter, Povai, which became a collective voice for Melanesian, Polynesian, and Micronesian anticolonial struggles. The PWC occurred at a critical moment of Indigenous, Global South women's and anticolonial liberation struggles across the region. Conference participants represented political movements from across New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Tahiti, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia, and the Americas. They denounced French, Australian, American, British, and Indonesian (neo)colonialism and imperialism in the South Pacific. This highlighted the relationships between Oceanic, Asian, African American, Caribbean, and African liberation struggles.

Corner Stones: Hamilton, Harlem, and Havana -- Twenty-One-Gun Salute: Armed and Dangerous in Orangeburg -- Liberia: First-Class Africa -- Kenya: All of Africa Is on Our Backs -- Anans's Revolution -- Black Power in the Caribbean, Signed Stokely Carmichael -- Aborigine? Not Puerto Rican! -- Minecrafting a Black World: The Sixth Pan-African Congress -- Les Nouvelles-H,brides sont le pays des noirs -- Papua New Guinea: A House for Every Family -- Environmental Justice: A Global Agenda for Pan-Africanism