2020-2021 Afrofuturism Syllabus - Week 20 - "A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination" Exhibit
Keywords
Afrofuturism, Julian Chambliss, Phillip Cunningham, Exhibit, Martin Delany, Sutton Griggs, Pauline Hopkins, Edward Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Edward Bruce, George Schuyler, Roger Sherman Tracy
Description
Exhibition catalog for "A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination," co-curated by Dr. Julian Chambliss and Dr. Phillip Cunningham as part of the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. The exhibit locates Afrofuturist thought in earlier eras of American history and focuses on how African American writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries used speculative/science fiction to imagine a better, freer, more equitable future for Black people.
Abstract
Exhibition catalog for "A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination," co-curated by Dr. Julian Chambliss and Dr. Phillip Cunningham as part of the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. The exhibit locates Afrofuturist thought in earlier eras of American history and focuses on how African American writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries used speculative/science fiction to imagine a better, freer, more equitable future for Black people.
Date Created
2021
Type
article
STARS Citation
Chambliss, Julian and Cunningham, Phillip, ""A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination" Exhibition Catalog" (2021). 2020-2021 Afrofuturism Syllabus - Week 20 - "A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination" Exhibit. 1.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/afrofuturism_syllabus_20/1
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