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...Renée T. White Abstract This symposium is an active engagement with the edited volume, Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Remaking of Blackness , a text that provides an interdisciplinary examination of the 2018 film Black Panther . The symposium introduction provides...

...Reynaldo Anderson Abstract The Black Panther phenomenon emerged at the nexus of Black speculative culture, Afrofuturism studies, Africana Esoteric Studies, and the Black spatial imagination. This phenomenon is emerging at a unique moment in world history when the world order has been slowly...

...Jane Anna Gordon Abstract This short piece engages contributions to Renee T. White and Karen A. Ritzenhoff’s Afrofuturism in Black Panther (2021) to argue that the film outlines some ingredients needed to cultivate universal first-class citizenship. The inclusion of council-structured political...

..., in the technological invention of the steelpan, an Afrofutural articulation of a black freedom. Unlike the black freedom central to the cinematic rendition of Wakanda, the black freedom of Laventille’s steelpan world is not completely disentangled from global systems of anti-black violence. However, steel pan’s...

... gaze. Afrofuturism: Black to the Future I dropped a million tears I know several responsibilities put me here I don't pedal backwards, but I live old-fashioned The lens that I'm lookin'through Won't prescribe me the right glasses, masses are now free Ashes I'm dumpin' out, 'bout to spread all' cross...

..., 1991) and Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) inarguably engaged these issues in nuanced ways. Numerous filmmakers have innovatively explored Afrofuturism, with films such as Pumzi (Wanuri Kahiu, 2010) offering robust worldbuilding with fewer resources than Coogler and his team had at their disposal. Thus...

.... Of the four histories in this volume, three are ground-breaking. In "Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the History of the Future," Lisa Yaszek presents the first full mapping of a centuries-old, cross-generic Afro-diasporic artistic tradition called Afrofuturism, a far-flung artistic tradition that "restore...

... such as social media, Afrofuturism,46 and present-day aesthetics to feminist epistemologies. Perhaps what is most central to Black feminist projects is the commitment to dynamic social change.47 Whitney Peoples argues that by placing feminism in conversation with Hip Hop, Hip Hop feminists operate in relation...