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Afrofuturism and the Law [PDF]

Critical Analysis of Law, 2022
Long before the film Black Panther captured the public’s imagination, the cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism” to describe “speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture.” Since then, the term has been applied to speculative creatives
Capers, Bennett, Capers, I. Bennett
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Afrofuturism as Reconstitution

Critical Analysis of Law, 2022
This paper argues that Afrofuturism is defined by the work of reconstitution. By undoing in fiction what is socially familiar and naturalized in practice and in history—whether unconscious racist common sense or the sense of political and legal stasis—Afrofuturism opens up a vantage for a utopian reconsideration of the (racially unequal) status quo.
Zamalin, Alex
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Ethnoforgery and Outsider Afrofuturism [PDF]

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 2013
This essay detours from Afrofuturism proper into ethnological forgery and Outsider practices, foregrounding the issues of authenticity, authorship and identity which measure Afrofuturism’s ongoing relevance to technocultural conditions and the globally ...
Trace Reddell
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L’afrofuturismo tra Stati Uniti e Italia: dalla memoria storica ai viaggi intergalattici per re-immaginare futuri postumani

California Italian Studies, 2020
In this article the author explores the cultural movement called Afrofuturism, tracing its origins, features, simbology, and its historical and political meanings.
Giulia Fabbri
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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century [PDF]

, 2020
Part one: Afrofuturism now. Author roundtable on Afrofuturism / Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek -- Dangerous muses: black women writers creating at the forefront of Afrofuturism / Sheree R. Thomas -- Part two: Afrofuturism in literary history.

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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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Alter Egoing: The Shifting Affects of Janelle Monáe

Lateral, 2022
In this article, I use alter egoing as a heuristic, a method for solving the problem of the evolving alter egos of Black women in popular music. When alter egos are analyzed through this lens, the refashioning of artistic imaginaries become legible as ...
Larissa A. Irizarry
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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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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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Considering Afrofuturism and the Built Environment [PDF]

, 2022
As Angela Pastorelli-Sosa demonstrates in her essay on artist Sydney Cain in this volume, Afrofuturism centers Blackness and Black experiences while sharpening the contours of our imaginations by bridging different temporal planes.
Faichney, Sylvia
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