Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism : toward Afrocentric Futurism /

Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism : toward Afrocentric Futurism / edited by Aaron X. Smith ; foreword by Molefi Kete Asante.

"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 Futu...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Smith, Aaron X. (Editor), Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Subjects:
Afrocentrism.
African Americans > Race identity.
Black people > Race identity.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African diaspora.
African Americans > Music.
African Americans
African Americans > Race identity
African Americans > Social conditions
African diaspora
Afrocentrism
Black people > Race identity
Music
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: defining our future on our terms / Aaron X. Smith
  • 1. Hantu from the oral-aesthetic perspective: AfroFuturism transcending the matrix space-time warp / M. Ndiika Mutere
  • 2. Agency-producing intellectual systems in the digital age: resisting domination / Aaron X. Smith
  • 3. Afrocentricity's AfroFuturism and the significance of asserting African agency in the pursuit of African future / Lehasa Moloi
  • 4. Bury me in the ocean: Erik Killmonger and Black Nationalism / John P. Craig
  • 5. Dirty computer: an Afrocentric analysis of Janelle Monáe's emotion picture / Alonge O. Clarkson
  • 6. Message for the People Party: hip-hop and the motherland in the age of AfroFuturism / Kofi Kubatanna
  • 7. AfroFuturism and African philosophy of time: analyzing AfroFuturism utilizing African cosmological paradigms / Taharka Adé
  • 8. Afrocentricity's AfroFuturism and the count up to the future / Molefi Kete Asante
  • 9. African diasporic consciousness: the historical and psychological impact of the Haitian Revolution
  • Ifetayo M. Flannery
  • Conclusion: From griots to ghettos to galaxies
  • About the contributors
  • About the editor
  • Index.

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