LibGuides: Curated Lists 2023: Afrofuturism

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Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack
Publication Date: 2013
In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators from the past, and the wide range of subjects they explore.
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Parable of the Sower: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; Damian Duffy (Adapted by); John Jennings (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2020
2021 award winner for best graphic novel adaptation! In the year 2024, economic and environmental collapse has led to social chaos. Struggling to survive within her gated L.A. community, a preacher’s daughter experiences a new vision for human destiny and gives rise to a faith that may save humanity.
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The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe
Publication Date: 2022
Whoever controls our memories, controls the future… Expanding on themes from her music, celebrated artist Monae curates a collection of tales exploring a bold, cold, and dangerous future – where identity and self-concept can be edited and controlled by others, and to discover and express one’s truest self is the greatest act of revolution.
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The Deep by Rivers Solomon; Daveed Diggs; William Hutson; Jonathan Snipes
Publication Date: 2019
Far below, in the calm and peaceful ocean, live the water-breathing descendants of pregnant African slave women tossed overboard from slave ships. This painful history is forgotten by all the people of the sea except for one – the memory-keeper. But the burden is too great for young Yetu, driving her to the surface and to the rediscovery of a world long left behind…
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Black Space by Adilifu Nama
Publication Date: 2008
Through an analysis of major SF films, including Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Minority Report, and more, Black Space offers an investigation of how SF films since the 1950s have dealt with the issue of race and with the representation of blackness. Black Space demonstrates that SF cinema has become an important field of racial analysis, where definitions of race can be contested and post-civil rights race relations (re)imagined.
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Films

Octavia Butler and the Utopian Alien (2017)

The many award-winning writings of Octavia Butler refuse to fit neatly into categories or genres, combining science fiction, futurism, meditations on the past, and alien identities. Exploring future Utopias grounded in the complex challenges of today, she represents a turning point in speculative fiction. (31mins)

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White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books (2012)

Take a journey through almost 50 years of comic book history and discover the origins of such classic and popular heroes as Black Panther, Luke Cage, Black Lightning, and more. Emerging from the increasingly socially-aware 1960’s and 70’s comics of Marvel and DC, but all created by, and written by, White men. What do the storied histories of these characters say about the White interpretation and representation of Black masculinities? (54mins)

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