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216 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
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| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index. |
| Summary |
"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 -- 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. |
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Afrofuturism -- Exhibitions.
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Afrofuturism.
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Fantastic, The.
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African American arts -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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African American arts.
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Black people in art.
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Black people in popular culture -- United States.
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National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) -- Catalogs.
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Pop-Kultur. (DE-588)4175361-6
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Person of Color. (DE-588)4034855-6
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Afrofuturismus. (DE-588)1205743510
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Bildband. (DE-588)4145395-5.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo, editor.
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Conwill, Kinshasha, editor.
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Young, Kevin, 1970- writer of foreword.
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Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo, writer of introduction.
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Anderson, Reynaldo, 1964- writer of supplementary textual content.
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Barber, Tiffany E., writer of supplementary textual content.
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Boyd, Herb, 1938- writero of supplementary textual content.
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Curtis, Ariana, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Ewing, Eve L., writer of supplementary textual content.
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Fleming, Tuliza K., writer of supplementary textual content.
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Hendryx, Nona, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Jemisin, N. K., writer of supplementary textual content.
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Jennings, John, 1970- writer of supplementary textual content.
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Lewis, Steven, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Neal, Mark Anthony, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Nelson, Alondra, writer of afterword.
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Nichols, De, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Nichols, Elaine, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Pretzer, William S., writer of supplementary textual content.
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Reid, Vernon, interviewee.
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Shindell, Matthew, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Tate, Angela, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Wilkinson, Michelle, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Womack, Ytasha, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Wormsley, Alisha B., writer of supplementary textual content.
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National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.), issuing body.
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History of Black futures |
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Afro futurism |
| ISBN |
9781588347404 (hardcover) : $29.95 |
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1588347400 (hardcover) |
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