Black Speculative Arts Movement

Reynaldo Anderson is associate professor of communications and chair of the Humanities Department at Harris-Stowe State University.Clinton R. Fluker is assistant director of engagement and scholarship at the Atlanta University Center.

• Forward: 25 Years in a 500 Year Long Song Sheree Renee Thomas Introduction: The Year of the Panther Reynaldo Anderson and Clinton Fluker Part I: Theory and Extra-Planetary ReasonChapter One: At the End of “Dasein”: An Afro-German Voyage into the FutureNatasha A. KellyChapter Two: Avant-Gardes, Afrofuturism, and Philosophical Readings of RhythmIain CampbellChapter Three: Working on the Other Side of Time: An Interview with Rasheedah PhillipsReynaldo AndersonChapter Four: We Speak, We Make, We Tinker: Afrofuturism as Applied Digital HumanitiesToniesha L. TaylorChapter Five: Forms of Future/Past: Black Kirby Afrofuturism and the Visual Technologies of ResistanceJohn Jennings and Clinton R. FlukerPart II: Coding Utopia and DystopiaChapter Six: “Everything is real. It’s just not as you see it”: Imagination, Utopia, and Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler’s “The Book of Martha”Susana M. Morris Chapter Seven: African Futurist Themes and Fantasy in Modern

This creative and courageous book is the flowering of black imagination and exploration into alternatives to the catastrophic realities of present-day black life. It is part of a great tradition of theory and praxis, thought and action rooted in concrete struggles for black freedom and black joy! As America and much of the world moves toward neo-fascism, Afro-futurism becomes more timely and powerful!