Afrofuturism
| schema:name | "Afrofuturism" |
| schema:contributor | Young, Kevin |
| National Museum of African American History and Culture | |
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| Afro-Amerikaanse kunst | |
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| black (general, race and ethnicity) | |
| artivisme | |
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| schema:abstract | ""From the cosmologies of ancient Black civilizations to the era of slavery and the present day, African Americans have reimagined the futures and possibilities of Black people across the globe through Afrofuturism. Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures investigates the past, present, and future of this evolving platform of Black identity and explores its expression through literature, music, art, film, fashion, and activism. Essays from key scholars, writers, and practitioners reveal Afrofuturism's historic and poignant engagement with African American intellectual history and popular culture. Some 125 iconic Smithsonian objects, historic photographs, exciting comics, and stunning artworks accompany the text. Through these pieces, the book illustrates Afrofuturism as a movement that always looks forward even as it looks back. This nuanced and authoritative history investigates the power of speculative work to connect with activist goals and reconstruct Black narratives unburdened by oppression. African Americans have used themes of technology, science fiction, space, and heroism to envision futures of Black liberation and convey an expansive image of the Black experience, generating narratives that don't have to be defined by slavery, racism, and violence, and that envision fuller and brighter futures for African American people. From writers Octavia Butler and Samuel Delay pushing the boundaries of science fiction and artists like Jefferson Pinder and Alisha Wormsley reenvisioning the past and future, to musicians such as Sun Ra, Nona Hendryx, Parliament-Funkadelic's George Clinton, and Vernon Reid employing Afrofuturist themes in their works, the book examines how Afrofuturism creates new spaces of identity for the Black community. The book also touches on contemporary popular media like Marvel's Black Panther, N.K. Jemisin's writing, and Janelle Monae's music to show Afrofuturism's continual expansion and relevance. Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures explores the movement's transformative power not simply to imagine a better, more equitable world but to actively work toward building one."-- On front flap of dust jacket."@en |
| ""This illustrated companion book to an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition explores the power of Afrofuturism to reclaim the past and reimagine Black futures"-- Provided by publisher."@en | |
| schema:editor | Strait, Kevin |
| Conwill, Kinshasha Holman | |
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| schema:text | Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Kevin M. Strait -- Afrofuturism as Space and Being / Ytasha L. Womack -- Interstellar / Tiffany E. Barber -- Black women change the face of spaceflight / Matthew Shindell -- I came to Africa on a spaceship / Ytasha L. Womack -- Notes from the cosmic underground : a history of the Afrofuturist movement and the changing world order / Reynaldo Anderson -- We are the stars : Black speculative narratives and the history of the future / John Jennings -- W.E.B. Du Bois : documenting the present, reinterpreting the past, and imagining the future / William S. Pretzer -- There's a reason / N. K. Jemisin -- Dialogues in space : Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany / Herb Boyd -- Black Panther : an escape to Utopia / Herb Boyd -- Black joy as resistance / Ariana Curtis. |
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| schema:text | In English. |
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