Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice

Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental JusticeChoice Outstanding Academic Title African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book Prize A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020 Honorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Finalist, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize Pauulus Diaspora is a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told

Using philosophical hermeneutics-- the study of human understanding-- as an analytical framework

and Peanuts combines the Ethiopian grain teff with stone-ground corn grits from the Deep South and North African zalook dip

to the almost erased lives of Black African women during World War II

politics and social tranformation for at least three decades

and develop the island as a vacation destination

only to learn that her mother’s illness has reached a terrifying peak

Loewen revives our history

Not everyone chooses the streets

Harlow Ford has spent her entire life running

and multidimensional

Black Lives Matter examines the police shootings that fueled the movement

This collection of writings from the black movement press of the twenties and on through the thirties provides valuable insight into the major political and ideological currents among black groups of that time