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Time-Sensitive: Teaching Afrofuturism Through the Nineteenth Century

Radical Teacher, 2022
"Time-Sensitive: Teaching Afrofuturism Through the Nineteenth Century" describes a strategy of teaching Afrofuturism that exposes its long and ongoing history.
Dalia Davoudi
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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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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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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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Valedictory lecture: We are rooted but we flow

Future Humanities, Volume 1, Issue 1, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This is the text of the valedictory lecture that Rosi Braidotti delivered in June 2022, to mark the retirement from her academic position at Utrecht University. It was conceived as a spoken text and written within the rhetorical tradition of valedictory speeches.
Rosi Braidotti
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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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Speculating on vacancy

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 123-138, March 2022., 2022
Property speculation has long served a role in the settler colonial appropriation of land and the racialised uneven development of contemporary cities. In this paper, I consider the city of Philadelphia’s predictive mapping of property vacancy to examine how speculative cartographies of property relate to ongoing racialised dispossession.
Elsa Noterman
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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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