The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections

CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Deep Relation
— Hermes, Tāne/Māui and Legba - Categorical segregation versus deep relation - Grounding - Grounding in Aotearoa NZ

2. Black Power and Mana Motuhake
— Introduction - Black Power and New Zealand exceptionalism - Te Aute Old Boys versus young warriors - An indigenous Black Power? - Conclusion

3. The Rise and Fall of Political Blackness
— Introduction - The Polynesian Panthers - The coming of the Springboks - From Blackness to taha Māori - Conclusion: Towards and away from identity politics

4. Black Liberation Theology and the Programme to Combat Racism
— Introduction - Pākehā privilege and the Church - Aotearoa liberation theologies - Conclusion

5. Keskidee Aroha: Walking Out of Egypt Land
Introduction - Decolonizing theatre - The groundings with Keskidee Aroha - Conclusion

6. Dread Love: Reggae, RasTafari, Redemption
— Introduction - Roots reggae and Te Kupu (the messenger)
- Aotearoa/Ethiopia - A dread love - Inhabiting RasTafari - Conclusion

7. Ham, Shem and the Māori Prophets
— Introduction - Cosmology, prophecy and the Bible - Israel and the Māori prophets - Ham and Shem’s redemption - Conclusion

8. Rātana, Baxter, RasTafari
— Introduction - Te Māngai, Te Mōrehu and RasTafari - Hemi, Ngā Mōkai and an African tribesman - Conclusion

9. Africa in Oceania
— Māui and Legba - Arcadian Hermes - The coming of colonial science - Bondage - Plantations - Legba bears witness - Race science versus decolonial science - Black Power in the hinterlands - Shem, Ham, Father Glory, verily, Hau! -

Conclusion