Guides: Afro-futurism--Black Speculative Art: Selected readings on Afro-futurism

Dissertations

Colmon, C. D., Jr. (2020). On Becoming: Afrofuturism, Worldbuilding, and Embodied Imagination (Order No. 27964138). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2447308720). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/on-becoming-afrofuturism-worldbuilding-embodied/docview/2447308720/se-2?accountid=7062

Fluker, C. R. (2017). Some Formal Remarks toward a Theory of Afrofuturism: Designing Liberation Technologies in Black Speculative Fiction (Order No. 10612333). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1920473412). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/some-formal-remarks-toward-theory-afrofuturism/docview/1920473412/se-2?accountid=7062

Huddleston, K. M. (2016). Afrofuturism as Applied to Self-Perception: an Experimental Vignette Study (Order No. 10162254). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1844058028). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/afrofuturism-as-applied-self-perception/docview/1844058028/se-2?accountid=7062

Johnson, C. Z. (2019). Race in the Galactic Age: Sankofa, Afrofuturism, Whiteness and Whitley Strieber (Order No. 13806083). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2194407832). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/race-galactic-age-sankofa-afrofuturism-whiteness/docview/2194407832/se-2?accountid=7062

Kim, M. (2017). Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the Reinvention of African American Culture (Order No. 10603778). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1937570734). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/afrofuturism-science-fiction-reinvention-african/docview/1937570734/se-2?accountid=7062

McNally, C. (2014). "Fighting for the Freedom of a Future Age": Afrofuturism and the Posthuman Body (Order No. 1565998). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1619364510). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/fighting-freedom-future-age-afrofuturism/docview/1619364510/se-2?accountid=7062

Rico, A. R. (2018). Imagining Global Female Futures in Black Speculative and Science Fiction (Order No. 13840023). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2197685286). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/imagining-global-female-futures-black-speculative/docview/2197685286/se-2?accountid=7062

Turman, A. L. (2019). There's Always Been An Afrofuture: Black Women's Literature as Technology of Protest (Order No. 27773302). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2358791529). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/theres-always-been-afrofuture-black-womens/docview/2358791529/se-2?accountid=7062

Williams, J. (2016). The audacity to imagine alternative futures: An Afrofuturist analysis of Sojourner Truth and Janelle Monáe's performances of Black womanhood as instruments of liberation (Order No. 10112400). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1800547692). http://pvamu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.pvamu.idm.oclc.org/dissertations-theses/audacity-imagine-alternative-futures-afrofuturist/docview/1800547692/se-2?accountid=7062

Selected Books on Afro-futurism

Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack
ISBN: 9781613747964
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
From the sci-fi literature of Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and N. K. Jemisin to the musical cosmos of Sun Ra, George Clinton, and the Black Eyed Peas'will.i.am, to the visual and multimedia artists inspired by African Dogon myths and Egyptian deities, the book's topics range from the'alien'experience of blacks in America to the'wake up'cry that peppers sci-fi literature, sermons, and activism. With a twofold aim to entertain and enlighten, Afrofuturists strive to break down racial, ethnic, and social limitations to empower and free individuals to be themselves.
Afrofuturism 2. 0 by Reynaldo Anderson (Editor); Lonny Avi Brooks (Contribution by); David DeIuliis (Contribution by); Jeff Lohr (Contribution by); Esther Jones (Contribution by); Qiana Whitted (Contribution by); Charles E. Jones (Editor); Tiffany E. Barber (Contribution by); Nettrice Gaskins (Contribution by); Ricardo Guthrie (Contribution by); Grace Gipson (Contribution by); Ken McLeod (Contribution by); tobias c. van Veen (Contribution by); Andrew Rollins (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781498510509
Publication Date: 2015-12-16
Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astroblackness represents a transition from previous ideas related to afrofuturism that were formed in the late 20th century around issues of the digital divide, music and literature. Afrofuturism 2.0 expands and broadens the discussion around the concept to include religion, architecture, communications, visual art, philosophy and reflects its current growth as an emerging global Pan African creative phenomenon.
Black Utopia by Alex Zamalin
ISBN: 9780231547253
Publication Date: 2019-09-23
Black Utopia spans black nationalist visions of an ideal Africa, the fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sun Ra's cosmic mythology of alien abduction. Zamalin casts Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler as political theorists and reflects on the antiutopian challenges of George S. Schuyler and Richard Wright. Their thought proves that utopianism, rather than being politically immature or dangerous, can invigorate political imagination. Both an inspiring intellectual history and a critique of present power relations, this book suggests that, with democracy under siege across the globe, the black utopian tradition may be our best hope for combating injustice.
We Travel the Space Ways by Henriette Gunkel (Editor); kara lynch (Editor)
ISBN: 9783837646016
Publication Date: 2020-01-21
A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach towards the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents, they recalibrate definitions of Afrofuturism. The editors and contributors of this exciting volume thus reflect upon the re-emergence of Black visions of political and cultural futures, proposing practices, identities, and collectivities