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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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My Soul Looks Beyond in Wonder: Curating Faith, Freedom, and Futurity at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Religions, 2023
This article offers a description and critical reflection upon two recent exhibits on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC): Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture and ...
Michael Brandon McCormack
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Editor's Introduction [PDF]

, 2013
This is AMSJ guest editor Tony Bolden's introduction to the Funk ...
Bolden, Tony
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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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Afrofuturist Worlds: The Diseased Colonial Imagination and Christian Hope

Journal of Moral Theology
This article argues that the cultural tradition of Afrofuturism offers one potential solution to the diseased Christian colonial imagination diagnosed in the work of Willie James Jennings.
Adam Beyt
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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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From Cyberpunk to Afrofuturism: A Talk About American Science Fiction Movements

Emerging Media, 2023
In this talk, I want to introduce some important current American science fiction movements to a Chinese audience. After establishing a baseline understanding of the popular science fiction tradition, I will briefly review the development of Cyberpunk ...
Henry Jenkins
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The African fashion movement and Afrofuturism in celebrating identity [PDF]

, 2018
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Williams, Sarah
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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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