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The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 2013
There has always been an intrinsically “hauntological” dimension to recorded music. But Derrida’s concept of hauntology has gained a new currency in the 21st century, when music has lost its sense of futurism, and succumbed to the pastiche- and retro ...
Mark Fisher
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Investigating cultural appropriation: An introduction, policy implications, and legal recommendations

Social Issues and Policy Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, December 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I propose a multidimensional model of cultural appropriation, including psychological antecedents of appropriation, policy‐level moderators, and implications for racial oppression. In terms of antecedents, I discuss how colorblind racism, aversive racism, and system justification contribute to two dimensions of cultural ...
Ariel J. Mosley
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A Model Investigating How Cultural Appropriation Increases Group‐Based Stigma Through Racialized Objectification

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 9, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This work proposes a model exploring how cultural appropriation increases group‐based stigma through racialized objectification, drawing on objectification theory and insights from intergroup relations. First, I discuss how cultural appropriation reduces minoritized individuals to external aesthetics and stereotypes, reinforcing white ...
Ariel J. Mosley
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Confronting Colonial Control: Afrofuturist Literacy Stances Versus Book Bans in the Battle for Spacetime

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT While much of the research on censorship and book banning rightly emphasizes efforts to silence and erase people who do not identify as white cis‐heteronormative men, the role of colonialism in the construction and contextualization of censorship is underexplored.
S. R. Toliver
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Queering The Future: Examining Queer Identity In Afrofuturism [PDF]

, 2017
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF CALEB MCKINLEY-PORTEE for the MASTER OF ARTS degree in COMMUNICATION STUDIES, presented on JULY 5TH, 2017 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: QUEERING THE FUTURE: EXAMINING QUEER IDENTITY IN AFROFUTURISM. MAJOR
McKinley-Portee, Caleb Royal
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Liberation via Reliving the Suffering: A Study of August Wilson’s Monologues

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
The articulation of counter-discourse has long served as a central mechanism for expressing resistance, resilience, and the reclamation of histories centered on marginalized communities.
Sumita, Mayur Chhikara
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The Comic at the Crossroads: The Semiotics of ‘Voodoo Storytelling’ in The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2019
This article focuses on the use of religious semiology in the 2008 Black graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1 by Damian Duffy and John Jennings.
Lisa Kottas, Martin Schwarzenbacher
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BOOK REVIEW: Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

Fafnir, 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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Contingent Contradictions and the (Il)Logics of Adolescence: Examining How Undergraduates in an LGBTQ+ Young Adult Literature Course Read Queer Youth

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
This study examines how undergraduates in an LGBTQ+ young adult literature course read queer youth, highlighting the contingencies and contradictions of youth ‐ as a concept ‐ and the power of literature to shape our understanding of the world Abstract This article explores how undergraduate students enrolled in a postsecondary course centering LGBTQ ...
Kyle P. Smith, Jon M. Wargo
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The Ontology of the Ship: Celestial Ecologies in Tade Thompson’s Rosewater and Octavia Butler’s Dawn

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
This essay argues that our discourses about objects, specifically space ships, can be read ontologically because our construction of space ships reflects dimensions of affect relative to our own being.
Stefanie K. Dunning
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