Selected Readings & Resources
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Black Friday. Mariner Books, 2018.
Anderson, Reynaldo. “Critical Afrofuturism: A Case Study in Visual Rhetoric, Sequential Art, and Postapocalyptic Black Identity.” The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Francis Gateward and John Jennings, Rutgers University Press, 2015, pp. 171-192.
Baccolini, Raffaella, and Tom Moylan, editors. Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination. Routledge, 2003.
Braidotti, Rosi. “Posthuman Critical Theory.” Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures, edited by Debashish Banerji and Makarand R. Paranjape, Springer, 2016, pp. 13-32.
Brown, Adrienne Maree. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. AK Press, 2017.
Butler, Octavia E. Lilith’s Brood Series. Grand Central Publishing, 1987-1989.
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.
Butler, Octavia E. Seed to Harvest Series. Grand Central Publishing, 1976-1984.
Emezi, Akwaeke. Freshwater. Grove Press, 2018.
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. “Evidence.” Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha, AK Press, 2015, pp. 33-42.
Hartsell, Julia, and Jonathan Hadas Edwards. “True Health | What if the Virus is the Medicine?” Kosmos, Spring 2020, www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/true-health-what-if-the-virus-is-the-medicine/.
Jemisin, N.K. How Long ’til Black Future Month? Orbit, 2004-2017.
Monáe, Janelle. Dirty Computer, Bad Boy Records, 2018.
Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing. Bantam, 1993.
Thomas, Sheree R. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Aspect, 2001.