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Too Dark for the World: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the Black Pacific
January 29 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

CSAAD Afro-Asia Project
Dr. Quito J. Swan
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite
NEW YORK, NY 10003
Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98598651350
Quito J. Swan’s talk, Too Dark for the World, explores Black internationalism and decolonization in Oceania. Drawing from archival research conducted across Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, it will discuss how Melanesian liberation struggles engaged Black Power, Negritude, and Pan-Africanism in their insurgent battles for self-determination. It is based on Swan’s Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anticolonialism, and the Africana World (NYU Press, 2022), which was awarded ASALH’s 2023 Best Book in African American History prize.
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Quito J. Swan is Professor of Africana Studies and History at The George Washington University. A public facing scholar of Black internationalism and the African Diaspora, he has single authored three books-Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism and the African World (2022), Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (2020) and Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization (2010). Pasifika Black received the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2023 Best Book in African American History Award. Pauulu’s Diaspora won the African American Intellectual History Society’s 2022 Pauli Murray Book Prize. Swan’s research has garnered fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, and more.