afrofuturist
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3ADJ.
intergalactic, used
VERB + AFROFUTURIST
developing
AFROFUTURIST + NOUN
musicians, worldview
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noun
A person who works in the genre of Afrofuturism.
Afrofuturists sought to unearth the missing history of people of African descent and their roles in science, technology, and science fiction.
adj
Relating to Afrofuturism.
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”.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Afrofuturist.
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3Afrofuturists sought to unearth the missing history of people of African descent and their roles in science, technology, and science fiction.
WiktionaryDrawing 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
WiktionaryThe most esoteric jazz musician of all time, Herman Poole Blount, aka Sun Ra, spent the post-World War II years developing his intergalactic afrofuturist worldview while working in Chicago.
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