Afrofuturism: a history of Black futures

Abstract

"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.

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.