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Of Afrofuturism, Of Algorithms
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 ...
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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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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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Radical re-envisionings : ancient Egypt, Afrofuturism, and FKA twigs [PDF]
, 2015 textThis report considers the role of ancient Egyptian culture and iconography within the genre/aesthetic known as Afrofuturism. It aims to position Afrofuturism at the juncture between alternative and activist media and genre media, highlighting the ...
Ibrahim, Amina McKenna
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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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Grandmaster Flash, the Sound of Afrofuturism [PDF]
, 2021 Annotated Bibliography for Sonic Afrofuturism ...
Robinson, Stacey
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Black Women and the Pandemic Imagination: Pedagogy as a Rehearsal of Hope During Covid-19
Radical Teacher, 2022 This article discusses Brown’s use of Afrofuturism and critical pedagogy in her creation of the class, Black Women and the Pandemic Imagination (BWPI), which she taught in Spring 2021 at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Kimberly Nichele Brown
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The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
, 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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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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Wakanda: Opening the High School Classroom to Afrofuturism [PDF]
, 2023 Afrofuturism has a solid place in high school classrooms thanks to the current work of Ryan Coogler, but also to those who have been in this work for decades including the Mother of Afrofuturism herself, Octavia Butler, adrienne maree brown, dream ...
Mattern, Carrie M
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