Broadening the Landscape of Blackness

Greenland, Fiona Rose

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“…Most of the academic literature concerning Afrofuturism provides a much more detailed version of what I attempted to provide in the previous two paragraphs by tracing the roots of the Afrofuturist movement before that movement even had a name (see, for example, Asim, 2016;English, 2017;Hamilton, 2017;Jones, 2015;Juang & Morrissette, 2008;Womack, 2013;Yaszek, 2006). Also, within the recent popular press, there are reviews of Afrofuturist gallery openings (e.g., Greenland, 2018) and of Afrofuturist fashion (Wallace, 2018) that weave discussions of Afrofuturist thinking into the critiques provided. Commensurate with the intersection of fantastical visions of everyday life for African-Americans and the abundance of aesthetic artistry employed by Afrofuturist artists, a great deal of literature considers the layers of meaning presented in graphic novels and comic books starring superheroes of color (Knight, 2015;Nama, 2009) who enforce the moral compass promised but denied by social democracy.…”

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Afrofuturism Revelation and Revolution; Voices of the Digital Generation

Peattie

2021

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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The art movement known as Afrofuturism uses various forms of artistic expression to create speculative fictions linking African-Americans’ ancestral past with envisioned, utopian futures. In the process, Afrofuturists shift the narratives that influence African-Americans’ lives from narratives of oppression to narratives that re-imagine a world in which African diasporic culture is at the center of social life. In previous analyses of the significance of Afrofuturism, however, the voices of actual artists are glaringly absent. Current public uprisings and demands for social reforms provide new opportunities for elevating Afrofuturism’s traditional emancipatory themes across digital platforms with a global reach. Using a critical race theoretical lens, this multimodal anthropological study focuses on the voices of contemporary Afrofuturists at the intersection of Afrofuturism, social injustice, and digital technology.

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