
Black and Brown Planets : The Politics of Race in Science Fiction.
Title:
Black and Brown Planets : The Politics of Race in Science Fiction.
Author:
Lavender III, Isiah.
ISBN:
9781626740686
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Coloring Science Fiction -- Part One. Black Planets -- The Bannekerade: Genius, Madness, and Magic in Black Science Fiction -- "The Best Is Yet to Come" -- or, Saving the Future: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Reform Astrofuturism -- Far beyond the Star Pit: Samuel R. Delany -- Digging Deep: Ailments of Difference in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" -- The Laugh of Anansi: Why Science Fiction Is Pertinent to Black Children's Literature Pedagogy -- Part Two. Brown Planets -- Haint Stories Rooted in Conjure Science: Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Andrea Hairston's Redwood and Wildfire -- Questing for an Indigenous Future: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony as Indigenous Science Fiction -- Monteiro Lobato's O presidente negro (The Black President): Eugenics and the Corporate State in Brazil -- Mestizaje and Heterotopia in Ernest Hogan's High Aztech -- Virtual Reality at the Border of Migration, Race, and Labor -- A Dis-(Orient)ation: Race, Technoscience, and The Windup Girl -- Reflections on "Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled," Twenty-Four Years On -- Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled: The Race Question in American Science Fiction -- Coda -- "The Wild Unicorn Herd Check-In": The Politics of Race in Science Fiction Fandom -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Literary explorations into the radical, hopeful racial futures imagined by science fiction.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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