Quito J Swan
@QuitoSwan
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Professor of History | Director of Africana Studies | The George Washington University | 🐍🐍🐍| 🎶 #BlackInternationalism #BlackPacific
Washington DC
Joined October 2012
So my next 📕, BORN A SUFFERAH: DANCEHALL MUSIC'S INSURGENT SOUNDSCAPES, drops in early 2025 @BloomsburyPub. Cover designed by the phenomenal @dianaejaita. Enjoy this sample of its music and themes - https://t.co/wz6HlGOnjs. More about the 📕 here - https://t.co/2VubJ6K9OJ.
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Please join us for a riveting online panel Thursday at 6:30pm EST on Black History, Anti-colonialism, and Global Revolutions with Paula Marie Seniors, @QuitoSwan and Natanya Duncan! https://t.co/WVZnwo1eZ3
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Scholars will discuss anti-colonialism and global Black revolutionary struggles.
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Definitely good vibes brother. I look forward to returning and having you come up to @GWAfricana!
Big shout out to my brother @QuitoSwan for sharing his work from his forthcoming book, Born a Sufferah: Dancehall Music’s Insurgent Soundscapes. Good vibes. We had a blast. More to come from the Center of African and African American Studies. Good to have you back on the hill. 🐍
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Our intellectual bashment on Dancehall’s insurgency was spectacular. Much thanks to @dariusjyoung & Kwasi Densu for making it happen. #FAMUCAAAS 🐍🐍🐍
@FAMU_1887 community, join us in welcoming back to the Hill @QuitoSwan. S/o to my colleague Kwasi Densu for making this happen. #FAMUCAAAS #longliveblackstudies 🐍🐍🐍
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Really looking forward to it! Thanks for having me! @FAMU_1887 @GWAfricana
@FAMU_1887 community, join us in welcoming back to the Hill @QuitoSwan. S/o to my colleague Kwasi Densu for making this happen. #FAMUCAAAS #longliveblackstudies 🐍🐍🐍
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Registration is open for our virtual event on Thursday 9/5 at 6:30 pm on the campus as crucible of struggle with @ProfSBradley @bdsavage1 & @DanicaSavonick moderated by @JeanneTheoharis & @racewomanist
https://t.co/mLxBwgQ35O
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A discussion on students protests on college campuses
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In a seminal text titled “Blinded by Bandung? Illumining West Papua, Senegal, and the Black Pacific” (2018), Quito Swan (@QuitoSwan) recognizes the anti-colonial spirit of the Conference, while urging us to observe how Sukarno’s Indonesia used its position as host to solidify...
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Thank you to Vanuatu for raising the issue of West Papua at the Pacific Islands Forum Melanesian caucus. You are keeping the West Papua flame alive
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Impressive and important piece on Palestine and apartheid written by @AmandaJoyceHall. “Anti-apartheid is a politics that demands a better world.” https://t.co/WQHEnxW9sI
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Before student encampments, generations of activists drew parallels between Israel’s violent occupation and South Africa’s racist oppression.
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🖤🌊 @QuitoSwan gifted us something vital with this text
Free PDF 📚: Pasifika Black ~ Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, & The African World Link 🔗: https://t.co/Arqls3mB2H Click (alt) for alt text + Book Summary 📖
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Vibes Up: Reggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn by Sabia McCoy-Torres:
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Second Place Winner, 2025 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationExamines reggae culture as an expression of cultural, ra...
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Also, @GWAfricana is a proud cosponsor of @NYADIFF and @AfWrldNwPrj's African Diaspora International Film Festival at GWU's Student Center this weekend (Aug 2-4). Featuring 17 fiction, documentary and short films, it will be a fantastic and important event. Come out if you can.
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US Premiere BREAKING BOUNDARIES opens @NYADIFF & @AfWrldNwPrj #ADIFFDC Aug. 2 w Q&A w subj. of film Nastasya Generalova @ #GWU. Spon. GW Africana Studies Program, @WPFWDC. Info. & 🎟️ https://t.co/QzJxXfqwW9
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Impressive! West Papua represent!
#BREAKING: Pro-Palestine demonstrators have scaled the roof of Parliament House in Canberra and unfurled multiple banners. Police are on scene following the major security breach. #9News DETAILS: https://t.co/gef96YCYHB
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Aller les gens sur Paris, il faut absolument y aller. Il faut pas relâcher la pression !! 🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨
Rassemblement ce soir à Paris à l'appel de l'AISDPK et @Sol_Kanaky pour s'opposer à la déportation des militants de la CCAT en France et exiger leur libération
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Devastating news for Barbados and for Caribbean history https://t.co/EB0IuV8Ddz
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A fire sparked by a lightning strike just before midnight destroyed a two-storey block at the Archives Department which housed major historic documents. Chief archivist at the Barbados Archives...
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Kanaky and West Papua at the Palestine solidarity march in London! We are here!! 🇵🇸🇳🇨 First time the Kanaky flag is flown at a Palestine march in London!!🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨
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Support for the Kanak people standing against French armed forces and armed settlers.
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A Toulouse la Kanaky en force ! Énorme cortège et présence Soutien à eux !🇳🇨
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