Afrofuturism: Selected Bibliography
AfroFutures: An Afternoon with Anaïs Duplan, Eileen Isagon Skyers, and Clayton Colomon
Bradshaw Series 2021
Friday March 26th, 2020, 3:30-5:00 pdt/6:30-8:00 edt
AfroFutures Playlist (Clayton Colmon):
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21M21p85ktLGFXRcTfeCJh?si=txBb_zeeRYaxwuimcUFa4A&nd=1
Afrofuturism
http://web.archive.org/web/20181021221247/http://afrofuturism.net/
Anderson, Reynaldo, and Charles E. Jones, editors. Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness. Lexington Books, 2016.
Black Futures: An Ode to Freedom Summer (The Movement for Black Lives, 2021)
Bristow, Tegan. “We want the funk: What is Afrofuturism to the situation of digital arts in Africa?”
Brother From Another Planet (John Sayles, 1984).
Butler, Octavia E. Dawn. New York: Warner Books, 1987.
Butler, Octavia. Lilith’s Brood. Grand Central Publishing, 2000.
Clinton, George. Mothership Connection, 1975.
Colmon, Clayton D. “Queer Afrofuturism: Utopia, Sexuality, and Desire in Samuel Delany’s “Aye, and Gomorrah”.” Utopian Studies. 28?2 (2017): 327-346.
Delany, Samuel R. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. New York: Bantam Books, 1984.
____. Dhalgren. New York: Vintage, 2001.
___. Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories. New York: Vintage, 2003.
Delany, Samuel R. “Delany on Afrofuturism.” Youtube (February 7th, 2019).
Dery, Mark. “Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose.” Edited by Mark Dery. Flame Wars: The Discourse on Cyberculture. Duke University Press, 1994. 179- 222. University of Victoria. https://www.uvic.ca/victoria-colloquium/assets/docs/Black%20to%20the%20Future.pdf
Drew, Kimberly and Jenna Wortham, eds. Black Futures. New York: One World, 2020.
Dubey, Madhu. Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Duplan, Anaïs. Take This Stallion. New York: Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016.
____. Mount Carmel & The Blood Of Parnassus. Monster House Publishing: Fredericton, NB, 2017.
____. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture. New York: Black Ocean, 2020.
English, D. & Kim, A. “Now we want our funk cut: Janelle Monae’s Neo-Afrofuturism.” American Studies 52:4 (2013): 217-230.
Eshun, Kodwo. “Further Considerations of Afrofuturism.” CR: The New Centennial Review3.2 (2003): 287–302.
Griffith, Rick. “The Construct (The Art & Politics of Afrofuturism).” Medium, 25 Sept. 2018, https://medium.com/@tiltwest/the-construct-the-art-politics-of-afrofuturism-d85f61b39348.
Heidenreich-Seleme, Lien, and Sean O’Toole, editors. African Futures: Thinking About the Future Through Word and Image. Kerber, 2016.
Imarisha, Walidah, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Oakland: AK Press, 2015
Iton, Richard. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Jackson, Sandra, and Julie E. Moody-Freeman, eds. The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.
Jemisin, N.K. How Long ‘til Black Future Month? New York: Orbit, 2018.
Jennings, John, and Stacey Robinson. Black Kirby: In Search of The MotherBoxx Connection. Vol. 2. Cedar Grove Publishing, 2015.
Keeling, Kara. Queer Times, Black Futures. New York: NYU Press, 2019.
Keith, Naima J., and Zoe Whitley, editors. The Shadows Took Shape. Malatjie, 2014.
LaFleur, Ingrid. “What Does The Afrofuture Say?” Medium (May 28, 2020).
https://medium.com/@ingrid.lafleur/what-does-the-afrofuture-say-e557da79fc26
The Last Angel of History. (John Akomfrah, 1996, U.K.).
Lavender III, Isiah, editor. Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of A Movement. Ohio State University Press, 2019.
Miller, D. Scot. “AfroSsurreal Generation: Afrosurreal Manifesto.” 20 May 2009.
Nama, Adilifu. Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film. University of Texas Press, 2008.
Nelson, Alondra. “Afrofuturism.” Social Text. 20:2 (July 2002): 1-15.
Nia Centre For The Arts, The Scratch & Mix Project. Blitz Printing House, 2015.
Object of Sound – Afrofuturism is Now
Rebirth of a Nation (Paul D. Miller aka D.J. Spooky, 2007).
Rifkin, Mark. Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Roussos, Eleni. The Art of Marvel Studios Black Panther: The Art of the Movie. Marvel WorldWide, 2018.
Science Fiction Studies 34:2 (102): “Afrofuturism” (July 2007).
Sofia Samatar. “Toward a Planetary History of Afrofuturism.” Research in African Literatures. 48:4, (2017): 175–191.
Steinskog, Erik. Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies: Culture, Technologies, and Things to Come. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Stotter, Magdalena. “Did You Say Afrofuturism? On Labelling Art.” Queer (In-)Visibilities in the Art of Africa and Beyond, 2 Mar. 2016.
Tiffany E. Barber. “25 Years of Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Thought: Roundtable with Tiffany E. Barber, Reynaldo Anderson, Mark Dery, and Sheree Renée Thomas.” Topia: Canadian Journal Of Cultural Studies. 39:1 (2018): 136-144.
van Veen, Tobias, and Reynaldo Anderson. “Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures.” Topia: Canadian Journal Of Cultural Studies. 39:1 (2018): 1-221 .
VerCetty, Quentin and Audrey Hudson. Cosmic Underground Northside: An incantation of Black Canadian Speculative Discourse and Innerstandings. Vol. 1. Cedar Grove Publishing, 2019.
White, Michelle-Lee, Keith Piper, Alondra Nelson, Arnold J. Kemp, Erika Dalya Muhammad. “Afrotech and Outer Spaces.” Art Journal. 60:3 (Autumn 2001): 90-104.
Wofford, Tobias. “Afrofutures: Africa and the Aesthetics of Black Revolution.” Third Text 31:5-6 (2017): 633-649.
Womack, Ytasha. Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
The X-Files: “The Unnatural” (1999)
Yaszek, Lisa. “Afrofuturism, Science Fiction and the History of the Future.” Socialism and Democracy, vol. 20, no. 3, 2006, pp. 41-60.
Paul Youngquist, Paul. A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016