# Obsidian's Speculating Futures

**Author(s):** Duriel E. Harris, Sheree Renée Thomas
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**Genres:** history
**Pages:** 276
**Publisher:** Downstate Legacies
**Published:** Fri Dec 27 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780997404142
**ISBN-10:** 0997404140
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/obsidians-speculating-futures

## Description

Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Drama. African & African American Studies. Afrofuturism. "When you chose to alter the history and ideology that has and continues to oppress you, you choose the path of a creator," writes special issue guest editor Sheree Renée Thomas in her introduction to OBSIDIAN'S SPECULATING FUTURES: BLACK IMAGINATION AND THE ARTS. 

"Under the powerful lens of Afrofuturism, the impossible is possible. It is creative alchemy. The spirit and rhythm of a culture is preserved and transformed; the past is not only contested but sacred space."

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