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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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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, I. Bennett
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Guest editorial for themed section Black Panther and Afrofuturism: theoretical discourse and review [PDF]

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This article proposes that Black Panther, with its aesthetic and thematic emphasis on Afrofuturism, as well as its spectacular technical production, makes a unique contribution to cinematic history in several significant ways.
Beschara Karam, Mark Kirby-Hirst
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Afrofuturism and decolonisation: using Black Panther as methodology [PDF]

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The terms Afrofuturism and decolonisation may both occupy prominent positions in the contemporary moment but they are not often projected into the same conceptual space.
Danielle Becker
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Time in Afrofuturism, Classroom Time, and Carceral Time

Radical Teacher, 2022
This essay describes teaching Afrofuturism in a small liberal arts college and a state prison, during the time of the pandemic. Questions about time are central to Afrofuturist literature, art, and scholarship, and the altered timeframes of both COVID ...
Wendy W. Walters
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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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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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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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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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BOOK REVIEW: Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

Fafnir, 2023
Lavender, Isiah, III. Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement. Ohio State UP, 2019. ISBN 978-0814255568.
Reba K. Dickson
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