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How “Black” Is Your Science Fiction?

February 7, 2017February 9, 2017 I. Augustus Durham #comicsandrace, comic books

Depending on the context of its usage, the Spanish term género is definable as “gender” or “genre.” This conflation suggests

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Science, Technology, and Black Liberation: An Interview with Sam Anderson

January 6, 2021January 3, 2021 Emily Hamilton 0 Comments
#SamAnderson, Activism, Black Liberation, education, Math, Sciences, teaching

Emily Hamilton interviewed Sam Anderson in early December, 2019.  Sam Anderson is a Brooklyn, New York, native and a founding

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Disability, Race, and Gender in Speculative Fiction

August 3, 2018August 8, 2018 Grace Gipson Afrofuturism, black feminism, Black women, blackness, disability, Gender, intersectionality, literature

“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there

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Fugitive Science: A New Book on Scientific Racism in America

May 6, 2017May 9, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, racism, racist ideas

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 3, 2020April 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors class, embodiment, literature, Performance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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