Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Anchored by Ryan Coogler's historic Afrofuturistic film Black Panther, use of speculative fiction of Octavia E. Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Tananarive Due, Nnedi Okorafor, Steven Barnes, and other writers--as well as short films by Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu and British/African filmmaker Kibwe Tavares and others--to examine scope and impact of Afrofuturism, growing international cultural movement binding elements of history, sociology, technology, magical realism, politics, and futurism to create alternate reality for children of African diaspora. Exploration of influence of music of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic (Mothership Connection), Sun-Ra, Janelle Monáe, and others. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 4.0