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BOOK REVIEW: Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

open access: yesFafnir, 2022
Lavender, Isiah III, and Lisa Yaszek, editors. Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century. Ohio State UP, 2020. ISBN 978-0814255964.
David Callahan
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Afrocentricity as the Organizing Principle for African Renaissance. Interview with Prof. Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University (USA)

open access: yesVestnik 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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Grandmaster Flash, the Sound of Afrofuturism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Annotated Bibliography for Sonic Afrofuturism ...
Robinson, Stacey
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The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought

open access: yes, 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., Roger A. Sneed
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The Aquatic Turn in Afrofuturism: Women and Other Critters in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi

open access: yesLe 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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Of Afrofuturism, Of Algorithms

open access: yesCritical 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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Radical re-envisionings : ancient Egypt, Afrofuturism, and FKA twigs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This 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 similar
Ibrahim, Amina McKenna
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI

open access: yesAI &Innovation, Volume 1, Issue 2, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
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The Futurism of Hip Hop: Space, Electro and Science Fiction in Rap

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2018
In the early 1980s, an important facet of hip hop culture developed a style of music known as electro-rap, much of which carries narratives linked to science fiction, fantasy and references to arcade games and comic books.
de Paor-Evans Adam
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Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 330-338, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery   +1 more
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