Black Internationalism From Bermuda and Africa to the Oceanian Struggles

<p>Quito Swan’s forthcoming book <em>Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World</em> (NYU Press, March 2022) beautifully encompasses the type of internationalist solidarity our 39th issue <em>The Ocean… From the Black Atlantic to the Sea of Islands</em> would like to convey. As such, this interview about the struggles of liberation in Melanesia (in particular West Papua, Kanaky, and Vanuatu) constitutes a cornerstone of the issue, for which we are deeply grateful to Quito.</p> <p>Hailing from the island of Bermuda, Quito Swan is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. An award-winning historian of Black internationalism, he is the author of Pauulu’s <em>Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice</em> (University Press of Florida, 2020), B<em>lack Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization</em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and <em>Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anticolonialism, and the African World</em> (New York University Press, 2022). Pauulu’s Diaspora was awarded the African American Intellectual History Association’s (AAIHS) 2021 Pauli Murray Book Prize and a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2021 Fellowship Book Award Prize.</p>