Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
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Abstract
Black and Brown Planets, edited by Isiah Lavender, III, signifies a timely exploration of the Western obsession with color in its analysis of the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among others, explore some of the possible worlds of science fiction (literature, television, and film) to lift blacks, Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples out from the background of this historically white genre. In two sections, this collection considers the role that race and ethnicity plays in our visions of the future. The first section emphasizes the political elements of black identity portrayed in science fiction from Black America to the vast reaches of interstellar space framed by racial history. Analysis of Indigenous science fiction in the second section addresses the effects of colonization, assists in discarding the emotional and psychological baggage carried from its impact, and recovers ancestral traditions in order to adapt in a post-Native-apocalyptic world. Likewise, the second section explores the affinity between science fiction and subjectivity in Latin American cultures from the role of science and industrialization to the effects of being and moving between two cultures, effectively alienated as a response to political repression. Black and Brown Planets considers how alternate racial futurisms reconfigure our sense of viable political futures in which people of color determine human destiny and, therefore, adds more color to this otherwise monochrome genre.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Coloring Science Fiction
Isiah Lavender III
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Part One Black Planets
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The Bannekerade: Genius, Madness, and Magic in Black Science Fiction
Lisa Yaszek
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“The Best is yet to Come”; or, Saving the Future: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Reform Astrofuturism
De Witt Douglas Kilgore
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Far Beyond the Star Pit: Samuel R. Delany
Gerry Canavan
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Digging Deep: Ailments of Difference in Octavia Butler’s “The Evening and the Morning and the Night”
IsIah Lavender III
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The Laugh of Anansi: Why Science Fiction is Pertinent to Black Children’s Literature Pedagogy
Marleen S. Barr
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The Bannekerade: Genius, Madness, and Magic in Black Science Fiction
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Part Two Brown Planets
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Haint Stories Rooted in Conjure Science: Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Andrea Hairston’s Redwood and Wildfire
Grace L. Dillon
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Questing for an Indigenous Future: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony as Indigenous Science Fiction
Patrick B. Sharp
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Monteiro Lobato’s O Presidente Negro (The Black President): Eugenics and the Corporate State in Brazil
M. Elizabeth Ginway
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Mestizaje and Heterotopia in Ernest Hogan’s High Aztech
Lysa M. Rivera
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Virtual Reality at the Border of Migration, Race, and Labor
Matthew Goodwin
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A Dis-(orient)ation: Race, Technoscience, and The Windup Girl
Malisa Kurtz
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Reflections on “Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled,” Twenty-Four Years On
Edward James
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Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled: The Race Question in American Science Fiction
Edward James
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Haint Stories Rooted in Conjure Science: Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Andrea Hairston’s Redwood and Wildfire
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Coda
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End Matter
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