"Whereas black American identities have often been based upon a recognition of the past (focusing on slavery and dehumanization), they are increasingly being established with reference to the future, in order to counter assumptions that blackness equals opposition to progress (Yasek 2005, pp. 302-303). Interest in black science fiction has grown in tandem with these cultural shifts, a process often referred to as 'Afrofuturism.' Kodwo Eshun has argued that Afrofuturist thinking is concerned with the 'unreality principle,' in contrast to many previous stereotypical notions of blackness, which often equated the black body with nature, or with the urban location of 'the street' (Eshun 1988, p. 4)."
Jamie Sexton, "A Cult Film By Proxy: Space is the Place and the Sun Ra Mythos", New Review of Film & Television Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, December 2006, pp. 197-215.
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