Black and brown planets : the politics of race in science fiction / edited by Isiah Lavender, III.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lavender, Isiah, III, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Race in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

Summary:

"Black and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors explore science fiction worlds of possibility , lifting blacks, Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples out from the background of this historically white genre. This collections considers the role of race and ethnicity 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. In the next section, analysis of indigenous science fiction addresses the effects of colonization, helps discard the emotional and psychological baggage carried from its impact, and recovers ancestral traditions in order to adapt in a pot-Native-apocalyptic world. Likewise, this 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 in and moving between two cultures. By infusing more color into this otherwise monochrome genre, Black and Brown Planets imagines alternate racial galaxies in which people of color determine human destiny"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Coloring Science Fiction

PART ONE: Black Planets

The Bannekerade: Genius, Madness, and Magic in Black Science Fiction

"The Best Is Yet to Come"

or, Saving the Future: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Reform Astrofuturism

Far beyond the Star Pit: Samuel R. Delany

Digging Deep: Ailments of Difference in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"

The Laugh of Anansi: Why Science Fiction Is Pertinent to Black Children's Literature Pedagogy

PART TWO: Brown Planets

Haint Stories Rooted in Conjure Science: Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Andrea Hairston's Redwood and Wildfire

Questing for an Indigenous Future: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony as Indigenous Science Fiction

Monteiro Lobato's O presidente negro (The Black President): Eugenics and the Corporate State in Brazil

Mestizaje and Heterotopia in Ernest Hogan's High Aztech

Virtual Reality at the Border of Migration, Race, and Labor

A Dis-(Orient)ation: Race, Technoscience, and The Windup Girl

Reflections on "Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled," Twenty-Four Years On

Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled: The Race Question in American Science Fiction

CODA

"The Wild Unicorn Herd Check-In": The Politics of Race in Science Fiction Fandom

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781626740686

1626740682

OCLC:

892911046

Publisher Number:

heb40380 hdl