51-2216 Afro-Futurism: Pathways to Liberation

Afro-Futurism provides artistic methods for the exploration of Black liberation. The creative ability to manifest transformation has been essential to the survival of Blacks in the Diaspora. This course considers what Blackness and liberation could look like in the future, real or imagined. It is rooted African cosmologies, using pieces of the past, technological and analog, to build the future. Themes include: identity; hybridity; alien and alienation; belonging, immigration, and migration; and the vessel–corporeal and metaphoric–as vehicle of liberation.

3 Credits
PL HU
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or Writing SAT score >= 710