Afrofuturist
See also: afrofuturist
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Noun edit
Afrofuturist (plural Afrofuturists)
- A person who works in the genre of Afrofuturism.
- 2013, Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, →ISBN, page 17:
- Afrofuturists sought to unearth the missing history of people of African descent and their roles in science, technology, and science fiction.
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Afrofuturist (comparative more Afrofuturist, superlative most Afrofuturist)
- Relating to Afrofuturism.
- Synonym: Afrofuturistic
- 2010, Tammy Kernodle, Horace Maxille, Emmett G. Price III, Encyclopedia of African American Music, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 9:
- Drawing on tropes of alienation and abduction, Afrofuturist musicians have used this idea to satirize media representations of a race-free future, commenting on the fact that the few black characters in mainstream sci-fi almost always portrayed stereotypical white characteristics or “acted white”.
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Further reading edit
- Afrofuturism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia