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Title Afrofuturism : a history of Black futures / edited by Kevin M. Strait, Kinshasha Holman Conwill ; foreword by Kevin Young ; contributions by Reynaldo Anderson [and 20 others] ; in association with the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Publisher Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2023]
©2023
Description 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
 book jacket
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 Mt Lebanon Nonfiction  704.0396 Afr     AVAILABLE

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-206) and index.
Contents Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Kevin M. Strait -- Space is the place. 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 -- Speculative worlds. 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 -- Visualizing Afrofuturism. Dreams rush to meet me : Afrofuturist looks and looking / Eve L. Ewing ; Transforming the future through dress, fashion, and costume / Elaine Nichols ; Afrofuturistic art / Tuliza Fleming ; Rendering Black futures / Michelle Joan Wilkinson ; On the third great day : Black artistry, activism, and community in the web3 future / De Nichols -- Musical futures. Just look over your shoulder : the music of Afrofuturism / Mark Anthony Neal ; The Nubians of Plutonia : ancient futures in the music of Sun Ra / Steven Lewis ; Afrofuturism : a design for living / Nona Hendrix ; The gendered contours of Afrofuturism / Angela Tate ; Sonic spaces : excerpts from an interview with Vernon Reid -- Afterword / Alondra Nelson.
Subject Afrofuturism.
African American arts.
Black people in art.
Outer space -- In art.
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Black people in popular culture -- United States.
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) -- Catalogs.
Genre Essays.
Addt'l Author Conwill, Kinshasha, editor.
Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo, editor, writer of introduction.
Young, Kevin, 1970- writer of foreword.
Nelson, Alondra, writer of afterword.
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.), issuing body.
Alt Title Afrofuturism
ISBN 9781588347404 (hardcover)
1588347400 (hardcover)