Critical black futures : speculative theories and explorations

Critical black futures : speculative theories and explorations / editor, Philip Butler.

Critical Black Futures imagines worlds, afrofutures, cities, bodies, art and eras that are simultaneously distant, parallel, present, counter, and perpetually materializing. From an exploration of W.E.B. Du Bois' own afrofuturistic short stories, to trans* super fluid blackness, this volume cha...

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Other Authors: Butler, Philip (Reed-Butler) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore, Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Black people > Race identity.
Afrofuturism.
Future, The.
Afrofuturist.
Afrofuturism
Black people > Race identity
Future, The
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The black futures of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • A black tetractic future: blackness and the age of hyper-exponentiation (Hyper-4)
  • Towards an Afrofuturist feminist manifesto
  • Writings on dance: artistic reframing for celestial black bodies
  • A disruptive visual respite: Stacey Robinson
  • Black radical nationalist theory and Afrofuturism 2.0
  • Afrofuturism and black futurism: some ontological and semantic considerations
  • Super fluid/Super black: translations and teachings in transembodied metaphysics
  • Race, economics, and the future of blackness
  • Newhampton: a future forward(ified) black city in the United States

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