Science Fiction - AAIHS

Race After Technology

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 Kendra Calhoun Jim Crow, racism, Resistance, technology

In February 2020, a Black woman tweeted about how Britain’s automated passport processing system deemed her photo unacceptable because her

Read more

Black Madness :: Mad Blackness — An Author’s Response

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 Therí A. Pickens #BlackMadness, black feminism, Black Studies, disability, Disability Studies, Literary studies, literature, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness I was surprised

Read more

Madness Has the Range

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Zandria F. Robinson #BlackMadness, black feminism, Black Studies, blackness, disability, Disability Studies, Literary studies, literature, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness You live, you

Read more

Psychiatric clinic, c. 1930. Photo: PBS.

Luke Cage and the History of Medical Exploitation

May 30, 2019May 29, 2019 Matthew Teutsch comic books, comics, Luke Cage, medical experimentation, racism

The first story arc in David Walker’s Luke Cage run, “Sins of the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend

Read more

Disability, Race, and Gender in Speculative Fiction

August 3, 2018August 8, 2018 Grace D. 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

Read more

← Previous