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Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley +10 more
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Afrofuturist Worlds: The Diseased Colonial Imagination and Christian Hope
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 Ontology of the Ship: Celestial Ecologies in Tade Thompson’s Rosewater and Octavia Butler’s Dawn
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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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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Science Fiction Studies 102. Volume 34, Part 2: Special 'Afrofuturism' issue [PDF]
Mark Bould and Rone Shavers edited this special issue of the journal Fiction Studies, devoted to afrofuturism and black ...
Shavers, Rone, Bould, Mark
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The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology
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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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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Afrofuturism 2.0 : The Rise of Astro-Blackness [PDF]
"The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the North American-African diaspora community.
Gaskins, Nettrice R. +13 more
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Afrofuturism in clipping.’s Splendor & Misery [PDF]
This article examines the manner by which clipping.’s 2016 album Splendor & Misery—a conceptual hip-hop space opera—freely enlists and reclaims texts from the African cultural tradition in order to manifest its Afrofuturist agenda.
Hay, Jonathan
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