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Black Speculative Fiction

"One of the ways speculative fiction can work against racism and [colonization] is to re-imagine our past, altering the power dynamics that we are accustomed to in order to illuminate hidden histories and silenced voices." -P. Djeli Clark ("How to Spite a Racist Troll: Support Black Dreams")

"Speculative thought is important, and unless you are doing speculative thought you are not doing any thought at all." -C.L.R. James ("How I Wrote the Black Jacobins")

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Black Speculative Fiction is an umbrella term for speculative texts with an emphasis on the people and culture of the African Diaspora. It is referred to as "Black” and not African, African-American, Haitian, etc. to show that the label includes ALL people of the Diaspora and places their culture, experiences and THEM at the forefront of these imaginative works. For a people who have been told constantly that they have no history or future, that they can never be super or a hero, and that their very existence is a nightmare, Black Speculative Fiction allows them to imagine themselves outside of what the world has told them they must be. Black Speculative Fiction challenges global anti-Blackness and forces readers, Black or otherwise, to accept the polylithic nature of Blackness. Click HERE to read more

  

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Research

Movies

A.I.-Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Altered Carbon (2018) - Netflix Series
Avatar (2009)

The Book of Eli (2010)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Black Panther (2018)
Catwoman (2004)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
The Defenders (2017) - Netflix Series
Gattaca (1997)
Guardians of the Galaxy films (2014, 2017)
The Matrix films (1999, 2003)
Luke Cage (2016, 2018) - Netflix Series
Star Trek (1966-69, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998,
2002, 2009, 2013, 2016) - TV Series and Films
Surrogates (2009)
Vixen: The Movie (2017)
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Xmen movies (2000, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2014, 2016)