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AFROFUTURISM & POSSIBILITIES FOR DECOLONIZING THE ACADEMY [PDF]

, 2019
Historic and contemporary acts of racial oppression has made casual abuse against black and brown bodies more visible, which carry implications for higher education & student affairs.
Shanice Brittany Clarke, Clarke, Shanice Brittany   +1 more
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Seeds of Change

Atlantis
The rapid advancement of human knowledge and technology has positioned us to realize a new colonialism in outer space. Those with a concern for the future cannot afford to refuse outer space altogether, but must actively devise alternatives to the ...
Nevandria Page
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Everyday Black Futurity in Popular Culture

Lateral
Black popular culture draws on everyday Black experiences to create ideas of futurity. There are well known examples of Afrofuturism, such as the Black Panther films, as well as the music of George Clinton, Sun Ra, Janelle Monáe, and Erykah Badu, which ...
RaShelle R. Peck
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History and Its Others in Afrofuturism

Iperstoria, 2016
Afrofuturist fiction proceeds from the position of an enslaved, silenced, subaltern Other within the history of the US. It responds by constructing various strategic discontinuities with historical time, including anachronism, apocalypse, and utopia ...
John Rieder, Cristina Bacchilega
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Dr. Julian Chambliss, Curator, Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts & Humanities 2020 Afrofuturism Conference [PDF]

, 2020
During the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts & Humanities 2020 Afrofuturism Conference, Rhea Posey and Nulieta John spoke with Dr. Julian Chambliss about the Afrofuturism cycle of the annual academic conference associated with the Festival.
John, Nulieta, Posey, Rhea
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Analyzing Octavia E. Butler’s “Amnesty” through Afrofuturism [PDF]

, 2023
The focus of this thesis will be “Amnesty,” a short science fiction story American writer Octavia E. Butler published for the first time in 2003. Like other works of the Pasadena-born author, “Amnesty” is an alien encounter story, dealing with both ...
Placuzzi, Vittoria
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Thinking Geomedia Futures: Indigenous Futurisms, Afrofuturisms, and Counter-Mediations of Temporality, Spatiality, and Digitality

Media and Communication
For critical scholars, abiding concerns about geomedia futures have included utopian–dystopian formulations of geomedia in popular culture and governance, the deep harms and inequalities that inevitably flow from technocapitalist geomedia regimes, and ...
Sarah Elwood
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A Manifesto for Yugofuturism: Maska’s Tools and Strategies for Imagining Possible (Feminist) Futures Inspired by Regional Pasts [PDF]

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
The article analytically synthesises the growing archive of insights from artists and writers gathered around the non-governmental organisation Maska, a performing arts production and publishing house from Slovenia, on the newly coined concept and ...
Pia Brezavšček
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Interrogating Algorithmic Bias: From Speculative Fiction to Liberatory Design. [PDF]

TechTrends, 2023
Gaskins N.
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Episode 42: Discovering Afrofuturism with Jordan Williams [PDF]

, 2020
Podcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with Jordan Williams, Senior Communications Specialist for the Lifelong Learning & Community Engagement department at UNT.
Supak, Susan, University of North Texas. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute., Williams, Jordan   +2 more
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