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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 [PDF]
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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Of Afrofuturism, Of Algorithms [PDF]
Critical Analysis of Law, 2022 Algorithms are proliferating in criminal legal structures. The predictions produced by these algorithms inform life-altering decisions around surveillance and incarceration. Their continued use poses a challenge to ongoing racial justice efforts. Contesting how algorithms of today maintain the racial status quo requires a fundamental rethinking of the ...
Okidegbe, Ngozi
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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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The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought [PDF]
, 2021 Race in science fiction -- Black religious thought and Afrofuturism -- Octavia Butler as architect of intersectional Afrofuturism -- "It's code": Janelle Monáe, the ArchAndroid, and queer Afrofuturistic salvation -- Walking in the path of the prophets ...
Sneed, Roger A.
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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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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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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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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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