Afrofuturism

Also Afro-futurism, Afro futurism

1. literature
   1912–An arts movement and genre that conceptualizes Black liberation in the future or an alternate reality, and which merges science fiction or fantasy with the history and culture of the African diaspora, commonly including elements such as technology, science, and magic.

   encyclopedic Afrofuturism gained prominence as a movement in the late 1990s.

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   1912

   Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture—and, more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future—might, for want of a better term, be called "Afrofuturism."

   Buttered Side Down 25 in E. Ferber Man who came Back

   1914

   Can we see Black cowboys ? Or something about afro-futurism??? I'm soooo tired of this same old script for Black movies

   Christian Reg. 1 October 952/2

   1958

   Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture—and, more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future—might, for want of a better term, be called "Afrofuturism."

   Optima March 22/1

   1982

   also uh—abt afrofuturism. a professor i had taught from a book abt funk, said perhaps going to mars wd be the next middle passage

   F. ZappaM. U. Zappa Valley Girl transcribed from song

   1986

   Both an artistic aesthetic and a framework for critical theory, Afrofuturism combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western beliefs.

   Washington Post 11 April c6/4

   1990

   The community surrounding this film has been amazing, and we want to translate this into a meaningful conversation about Black Liberation, afro futurism and technology.

   J. W. FarquharG. A. Spiller Last Puff 1991 iv. 48

   1991

   This fusion of futurism, liberation, and African-American history is what many critics have come to define as "Afrofuturism."

   P. Marshall Daughters 1992 ii. x. 215

   1996

   Give Bootsy Collins and George Clinton and all dem artists their flowers. You can't tell me that P-funk and Afrofuturism didn't fundamentally inspire classic #StarTrek #BlackTrek

   A. L. Davidson Making & molding Identity in Schools ii. 87