WOMENST 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, William Paterson University, Afrofuturism
10 Apr 2019
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Assistant professor of english at william paterson university. Writes on african american literature and culture, hip-hop, gender, sexuality, and critical race studies. Just received very prestigious woodrow wilson foundation fellowship. Phd in english from mcmaster! black people can survive and thrive. Afrofuturism as response to historical and contemporary anti-black violence destroy black life through colonization and transatlantic slavery, black intellectuals, artists, and activist have been met with the exhausting task of overcoming material. Imaginative, future-oriented work grounded in histories of black communities and anti-racist ideals. Visions of wondaland: on janelle mon e"s afrofuturistic vision . Utopian, sci-fi, and fantasy projects imagining and articulating futures in which. Ytasha womack: an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation (qtd. Faced with the historical brutality that has sought to dispossess and and intellectual challenges (smith 4).
