Contributions by Taharka Adé, Molefi Kete Asante, Alonge O. Clarkson, John P. Craig, Ifetayo M. Flannery, Kofi Kubatanna, Lehasa Moloi, M. Ndiika Mutere, and Aaron X. Smith
In the twenty-first century, Afrofuturism--a historical and philosophical concept of the future imagined through a Black cultural lens--has been interpreted through a myriad of writers, artists, scientists, and other visionary creatives. In
Afrocentricity in Afrofuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism, editor Aaron X. Smith curates a collection of interdisciplinary essays that critiques existing scholarship on Black futurity. In contrast to much previous work, these essays ground their explorations in African agency, centering the African within historical and cultural reality. Situating Afrocentricity as the fields foundational root and springboard for an expansive future, contributors detail potential new modes of existence and expression for African people throughout the diaspora.
Divided into two parts--Representations and Transformations--this book examines the tensions created by historical and cultural dislocation of A
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