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Blackness as Infectious: Racialized Plagues and Anti-Plagues in Anglo-American Works of Science Fiction

AmLit, 2023
With the outbreak of Covid-19, the virus has made increasingly visible a second pandemic spreading worldwide—that of racial discrimination—leading to higher mortality rates among people of color and unequal access to healthcare on racial grounds. In such
Margo, Giulia
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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020), 248pp.

Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2021
Marijana Miki´c reviews Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek's edited volume Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (The Ohio State University Press, 2020).
Marijana Mikić
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“That Further by Faith”: Ancestral Futurity, Reincarnation, and the Conjuration of Denmark Vesey’s Revolutionary Religious Perspective

Religions, 2023
This article expresses the importance and theoretical viability of Black religious communities reflecting on armed struggle as an option in their pursuit of liberation. African Americans have wrestled with various perspectives on what forms of resistance
Jimmy Earl Butts
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Looking For Black Religions In 20th Century Comics: 1931-1993 [PDF]

, 2019
Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity ...
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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Teaching Afrofuturisms as American Cultural Studies

Radical Teacher, 2022
Kodwo Eshun asserts that “Afrofuturism studies the appeals that black artists, musicians, critics, and writers have made to the future, in moments where any future was made difficult for them to imagine.” Afrofuturism allows African diasporic writers to
Makeba Lavan
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A nation under our feet : Black Panther, Afrofuturism and the potential of thinking through political structures [PDF]

, 2019
In this article, the focus is on Black Panther: a nation under our feet, a comic book series written by American public intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates. The point of departure is Coates's idea of 'the Mecca', a term he uses in his earlier non-fiction.
Engels, Laura
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Book review : #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation [PDF]

, 2020
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Bozzi, N
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“Okay ladies, now let’s get in formation!”: Music Videos and the Construction of Cultural Memory

Open Cultural Studies, 2017
This paper explores strategies for constructing and perpetuating cultural memory through music videos, using Beyonce’s Formation (2016) and Janelle Monae’s Many Moons (2008) and Q.U.E.E.N. (2013) as case studies. The medium’s idiosyncrasies create unique
Bertens Laura M. F.
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Afrocentricity as the Organizing Principle for African Renaissance. Interview with Prof. Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University (USA)

Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2020
Professor Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair of the Department of Africology at Temple University. Asante’s research has focused on the re-centering of African thinking and African people in narratives of historical experiences that provide ...
Aaron X. Smith
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The Aquatic Turn in Afrofuturism: Women and Other Critters in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi

Le Simplegadi, 2021
The recent efflorescence of fictional writings and artistic works examined under the rubrics of Blue Humanities (Mentz 2009), Critical Ocean Studies (DeLoughrey 2019), Hydro-Criticism (Winkiel 2019), or New Thalassology (Horden and Purcell 2006), testify
Daniela Fargione
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