PASIFIKA BLACK: RACE, POWER & DIASPORA IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
In 1961, a group of black West Papuans ushered an urgent declaration to their fellow “Negroids of the world.” It read, “We are living in the Pacific, our people are called Papuans, our ethnic origin is the Negroid Race. We do not want to be slaves any more.” Yearning for international support in their struggle against Indonesian colonialism, West Papuans continually reached out to their “tribesmen” across the African Diaspora.
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BLACK APPLE: A History of Malcolm X and Black Power in New York, 1954-1974
His fiery speeches, striking analogies, advocacy of Black solidarity, self-determination, self-defense, and cultural pride; his constant and forceful ridiculing of assimilationists and non-violent civil rights activists stimulated a generation of Black power activists across the nation during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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