Week 10a: Speculative Futures / SF & Social Movements / Anti-Oppressive Futures

Monday, November 1

For today, prepare:

• Read (9 pages): Anderson, Reynaldo. 2016. “AFROFUTURISM 2.0 & THE BLACK SPECULATIVE ARTS MOVEMENT: Notes on a Manifesto.” Obsidian 42 (1/2): 228–36. (PDF on Google Drive) 
• Read: Colón-Cabrera, David. 2018. “Looking for Humanity in Science Fiction through Afrofuturism.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, December 18. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/looking-for-humanity-in-science-fiction-through-afrofuturism
• Read: Oman-Reagan, Michael. 2018. “First Contact with Possible Futures.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, December 18. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/first-contact-with-possible-futures
• Read: Imarisha, Walidah. 2020. “To Build a Future Without Police and Prisons, We Have to Imagine It First.” OneZero, October 22, 2020. https://onezero.medium.com/black-lives-matter-is-science-fiction-how-envisioning-a-better-future-makes-it-possible-5e14d35154e3 (PDF also on Google Drive)

Supplemental Resources

• The works by Octavia Butler
• Syms, Martine. 2014. “The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto.” The Third Rail 3. http://thirdrailquarterly.org/martine-syms-the-mundane-afrofuturist-manifesto/
• IAIA: Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. 2021. “Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future.” Online VR Installation. https://iaia.edu/event/indigenous-futurisms-transcending-past-present-future/
• Anderson, Ryan, Emma Louise Backe, Taylor Nelms, Elizabeth Reddy, and Jeremy Trombley. 2018. “Speculative Anthropologies.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, December 18. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/speculative-anthropologies
• Black Panther
• https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com
• https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/unveiling-visions-alchemy-black-imagination