Alicia Wormsley's billboard installation declared "There are Black people in the future." This course considers the ways visions of futurity have fueled the resistance of communities of the African diaspora against racial exclusion and oppression, and have sustained these communities through the present by imagining what Ashon Crawley calls "otherwise possibilities." This course will explore the ongoing significance of Afrofuturism (and what is often considered her counterpart, Afropessimism) through theoretical texts in Black studies, speculative literature, art, television, film, technology, and music, to consider the conditions of possibility for Black life beyond the circumstance of anti-Blackness.
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