The future of race in Afro-futurist fiction / Madhu Dubey -- Brave black worlds: black superheroes as science fiction ciphers / Adilifu Nama -- "Explorers": Star trek: deep space nine / Michael Charles Pounds -- Connecting to a future community: storytelling, the database, and Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber / Alisa K. Braithwaite -- Science fiction, feminism and blackness: the multifaceted import of Octavia Butler's work / Shannon Gibney -- The absence of meat in Oankali dietary philosophy: an eco-feminist-vegan analysis of Octavia Butler's Dawn / Amie Breeze Harper -- Speculative poetics: Audre Lorde as prologue for queer black futurism / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- "Why white people feel they got to mark us?": bodily inscription, healing and maternal "plots of power" in Jewelle Gomez's "Louisiana 1850" / Marie-Luise Loeffler -- The unshakable intent to commit genocide: Walter Mosely's The wave, 9/11 and politics out of context / Brandon Kempner -- Techno-utopia and the search for Saaraba (1989) / Debbie Olson -- Towards a black science fiction cinema: the slippery signifier of race and the films of Will Smith / Stephanie Larrieux.
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