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Correlation between Afrofuturism and science fiction in Space is the Place: praxis or paradox?

Diffractions, 2023
In this paper, I use the culture studies approach to investigate how themes such as the space age, psychedelia and the creation of a post-apocalyptic black colony in the film Space is the Place (Coney 1972), interweave with Darko Suvin's (1974) concept ...
Gloria Adjeiwaa Fofie
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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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Afrofuturism and Black Futurism: Some Ontological and Semantic Considerations in Critical Black Futures Chapter 8, edited by Philip Butler

, 2021
When adopting a Futurist point of view, we often work with background notions of what is properly ‘Afro’ about Afrofuturism (AF) or ‘Black’ about Black Futurism (BF).
Scott, Damion Kareem
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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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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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Hypeful worlds

American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 527-539, November 2024.
Abstract Contemporary technoscience is rife with hype—inflated claims that rapidly propagate in favor of the next “new thing.” While scholars often strive to debunk and dispel hype, Tanzanian technologists working in health care face a different challenge: navigating hype.
Tom Neumark
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Atlanta Trap and the Current Directions of Afrofuturism [PDF]

, 2019
Atlanta is the cultural hub of the hip hop industry and home to some of the latest and most exciting examples of contemporary Afrofuturism. As the city's primary musical export, trap generally reads as apolitical; however, modern deployments of ...
Hall, Tyler, Tyler Hall
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