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What Do You Think About the New Afrofuturism?

Everybody is YouTubing Barack Obama's March 18 speech about racial politics partly because it was one of the most nuanced political speeches in recent memory, but also because he played the futurist card. He talked about his own racially-mixed family, and speculated about how mixed-race community and people represent the future of the United States. He described several ways that racial reconciliation of the future could begin on a foundation of mixed-race identity. What do you think of this style of futurism? By answering, you can help an undergrad at the University of Arkansas, who wrote in to pose a question about Afrofuturism. More »

3:25 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,910 views, 78 comments

Latest by mmcnary: I propose a system of positive procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody fucks everybody until we're all the same color. -Jay Billington Bulworth "Damn" -Granny more »