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Afrofuturism : a history of Black futures

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.
Publication
  • Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo
  • Conwill, Kinshasha
  • Young, Kevin, 1970-
  • Anderson, Reynaldo, 1964-
  • Barber, Tiffany E.
  • Boyd, Herb, 1938-
  • Curtis, Ariana
  • Ewing, Eve L.
  • Fleming, Tuliza K.
  • Hendryx, Nona
  • Jemisin, N. K.
  • Jennings, John, 1970-
  • Lewis, Steven
  • Neal, Mark Anthony
  • Nelson, Alondra
  • Nichols, De
  • Nichols, Elaine
  • Pretzer, William S.
  • Reid, Vernon
  • Shindell, Matthew
  • Tate, Angela
  • Wilkinson, Michelle
  • Womack, Ytasha
  • Wormsley, Alisha B.
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.), issuing body.
Description
216 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
"This illustrated companion book to an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition explores the power of Afrofuturism to reclaim the past and reimagine Black futures"--
Alternative Title
  • History of Black futures
  • Afro futurism
Subject
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) > Catalogs
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
  • 2000-2099
  • Afrofuturism > Exhibitions
  • Afrofuturism
  • Fantastic, The
  • African American arts > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • African American arts
  • Black people in art
  • Black people in popular culture > United States
  • Black people in popular culture
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogs.
Note
  • Published as a companion volume to the exhibition of the same name at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, from March 24, 2023 to March 24, 2024 -- From museum's website.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.
Contents
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 -- 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 -- 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 Hendryx -- The gendered contours of Afrofuturism / Angela Tate -- Sonic spaces : excerpts from an interview with Vernon Reid -- Afterword / Alondra Nelson.
Call Number
Sc F 23-273
ISBN
  • 9781588347404
  • 1588347400
LCCN
2022058854
OCLC
1333920149
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]
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local Subject
Black author.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Added Author
Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo, editor.
Conwill, Kinshasha, editor.
Young, Kevin, 1970- writer of foreword.
Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo, writer of introduction.
Anderson, Reynaldo, 1964- writer of supplementary textual content.
Barber, Tiffany E., writer of supplementary textual content.
Boyd, Herb, 1938- writero of supplementary textual content.
Curtis, Ariana, writer of supplementary textual content.
Ewing, Eve L., writer of supplementary textual content.
Fleming, Tuliza K., writer of supplementary textual content.
Hendryx, Nona, writer of supplementary textual content.
Jemisin, N. K., writer of supplementary textual content.
Jennings, John, 1970- writer of supplementary textual content.
Lewis, Steven, writer of supplementary textual content.
Neal, Mark Anthony, writer of supplementary textual content.
Nelson, Alondra, writer of afterword.
Nichols, De, writer of supplementary textual content.
Nichols, Elaine, writer of supplementary textual content.
Pretzer, William S., writer of supplementary textual content.
Reid, Vernon, interviewee.
Shindell, Matthew, writer of supplementary textual content.
Tate, Angela, writer of supplementary textual content.
Wilkinson, Michelle, writer of supplementary textual content.
Womack, Ytasha, writer of supplementary textual content.
Wormsley, Alisha B., writer of supplementary textual content.
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.), issuing body.
Research Call Number
Sc F 23-273
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