ASALH 2023 Book Prize WinnerA lively living history of anticolonialist movements across the Atlantic Pacific and Indian OceansOceania is a vast sea of islands large scale political struggles and immensely significant historical phenomena. Pasifika Black is a compelling history of understudied anticolonial movements in this region exploring how indigenous Oceanic activists intentionally forged international connections with the African world in their fights 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 battles against colonial rule. Pasifika Black features as its protagonists Oceanias 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 Nigerias Wole Soyinka the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacifics Amelia Rokotuivuna Samoas Albert Wendt African American anthropologist Angela Gilliam the NAACPs Roy Wilkins West Papuas Ben Tanggahma New Caledonias Dw 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 statesanctioned 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.