... novel as an exemplar, Ishmael Reed has supplied a paradigm for an African diasporic technoculture. 8 Alondra Nelson Afrofuturism Afrofuturism can The contributions to this issue are perhaps those...

... to enumerate and digitize early modern black diasporic life. The article engages those critiques in light of black diasporic communities’ battles for justice and redress and the forms these have taken online, such as Afrofuturism, eBlack Studies, and Digital Alchemy. It argues that, while digitizing the study...

.... The Afrofuturist Alternative It is for this reason that we see the turn to Afrofuturism. Rather than merely reverse the stereotypes, the Afrofuturists have attempted to forge a new identity that puts black cultural origins in categories of the artificial as much as in those of the natural. Afrofuturists blur...

...Tracie Morris Duke University Press 2002 Poetry Tracie Morris AfroFuture—Dystopic Unity My...

..., and science fiction collected under the rubric Afrofuturism, including Greg Tate, Sheree Thomas, Mark Dery, Carol Cooper, Nalo Hopkinson, Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), and the many contributors to the AfroFuturism Web site and listserv.21 Eshun’s 1998 volume More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic...

... Duke University Press. Alondra Nelson is associate professor of sociology at Columbia Univer- sity. She is the author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of Health and Race (University of California Press, forthcoming); editor of “Afrofuturism,” a special issue...

..., “Role-Playing the Multiculturalism Umpire,” 209. 24. Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom” ; Gould, Mismeasure of Man . 25. Patterson, “Role-Playing the Multiculturalism Umpire,” 209. 26. Stringer, “Slavery and the Afrofuture,” 205 . 27...

..., Invisible Man's creative use of technology (his role as a “thinker-tinker”) is, as Lieberman describes, “proto-afro-futurist,” in that it imagines technology otherwise through praxis. 55 Coleman and DeFrantz articulate a definition of Afrofuturism that is helpful here because it too connects creativity...

... ; McKittrick, “Plantation Futures,” 2 . 104 Richards, “Political Culture in Jamaica.” 105 See Hartman’s foundational writing on black redress, Scenes of Subject , 49 . 106 Eshun, “Further Considerations of Afrofuturism.” 107 Douglass, The Heroic Slave , 176 . 108...

... to negotiate a polyamorous relationship with her partner, and postings by people such as Juba Kalamka and Ayizé Jama-Everett on your own AfroFuturism listserv, and the efforts of erotica publisher and scifantasy writer Mary Anne Mohanraj...

... and public policy circles. For a more critical analysis of race and technology that moves beyond remedial debates currently taking place regarding “the digital divide,” see Alondra Nelson, ed., “Afrofuturism,” special issue, Social Text, no. 20 (2002): 21–47. 14. Prior to the start...