Whereas the first ‘Black Panther’ film celebrated an array of African cultures, the follow-up seeks to also highlight the rich legacy of Mesoamerican cultures destroyed by colonial conquest.
Tag: afrofuturism
Hillary Clinton’s TV Show ‘Gutsy’ Is Infantilising and Cutesy
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s new series showcases courageous women from various fields. But the show’s narrow lens suggests approval of women who show spunk, but not those who challenge …
We Need More Radical Climate Fiction
Literature has seen an uptick in 'cli-fi,' fiction about possible climate dystopias and utopias. But too much of that climate-change-related fiction lacks any kind of radical political imagination.
Afrofuturism And its Possibility of Elsewhere: The Power of Political Imagination
Cultural theorist Kodwo Eshun defines Afrofuturism as a practice to establish the historical character of Black culture by bringing African peoples into a global history denied to them.