Results for Afrofuturism That Engages With American History
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In Iowa, a young Black man goes to a party where he meets a host of artist types who cause him to reflect on how people relate to each other.
A boy’s idolized uncle immigrates to the United States. As the child grows into a man in late twentieth-century Nigeria, his relative’s absence takes a toll on the family. When the two men finally meet up years later, the encounter reveals unfulfilled dreams.
When faced with cultural appropriation and police brutality, two Black women in different generations of the same family combine their ability to perform hoodoo with modern technology to remedy these abuses.
A Southern black woman living in South Carolina confronts herself and the legacy of the Confederacy.
An African American man from the twentieth century goes back in time to prevent his town from being destroyed by a mob of violent whites.
Nana, a twenty-nine year old Ghanaian-American man from Cleveland, tries to repair his relationships with Sassy, his high school sweetheart, and Edwin, his Princeton-educated older brother, when Edwin comes home for the first time in five years.
A Black couple vacationing in France implodes after facing countless microaggressions, taking their discontent out on one another.
In the near future, nanotechnology emerges that can give Black Americans the ability to live underwater in their own colonies, even as violent white supremacists work to terrorize these communities.
The racism a Black, working-class couple faces at work during the Harlem Renaissance spills over into their relationship in violent ways.
In a dystopian American Midwest, a young Arab-American woman tries to get in touch with a past lover as she journeys through the Dakotas with her dying mother who's a part of "the Movement," a philosophy based on continuous transience and the avoidance of violent places.
