ISBN:
9781496847836
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1496847830
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9781496847843
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1496847849
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 222 pages
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23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Afrocentricity in afrofuturism
DDC:
305.896
Keywords:
Afrocentrism.
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African Americans Race identity.
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Black people Race identity.
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African Americans Social conditions.
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African diaspora.
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African Americans Music.
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Afrocentrisme.
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Noirs américains - Identité ethnique.
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Personnes noires - Identité ethnique.
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Noirs américains - Conditions sociales.
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Africains - Pays étrangers.
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Noirs américains - Musique.
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African Americans
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African Americans - Race identity
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African Americans - Social conditions
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African diaspora
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Afrocentrism
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Black people - Race identity
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Music
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"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 field's 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 African peoples and consciousness. Contributors cover varied topics such as the intersections of culture and design; techno culture; neuroscience; and the multiplicity of African cultural influences in aesthetics, oratory, visual art, hip hop, and more. Essays range from theoretical analyses to close readings of history and popular culture, from the Haitian Revolution to Sun Ra, Janelle Mona̹e's Dirty Computer, and Black Panther. Afrocentricity in Afrofuturism offers an expansive vision of Afrofuturism and its ranging significance to contemporary culture and discourse"--.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante -- .
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Preface -- .
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Acknowledgments -- .
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Introduction: defining our future on our terms /
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Hantu from the oral-aesthetic perspective: AfroFuturism transcending the matrix space-time warp /
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Agency-producing intellectual systems in the digital age: resisting domination /
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Afrocentricity's AfroFuturism and the significance of asserting African agency in the pursuit of African future /
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Bury me in the ocean: Erik Killmonger and Black Nationalism /
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Dirty computer: an Afrocentric analysis of Janelle Monáe's emotion picture /
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Message for the People Party: hip-hop and the motherland in the age of AfroFuturism /
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AfroFuturism and African philosophy of time: analyzing AfroFuturism utilizing African cosmological paradigms /
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Afrocentricity's AfroFuturism and the count up to the future /
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African diasporic consciousness: the historical and psychological impact of the Haitian Revolution /
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Conclusion: From griots to ghettos to galaxies -- .
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About the contributors -- .
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About the editor -- .
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Index.
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