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A View Of Black Speculative Past And Future: An Interview With Tim Fielder, Julian Chambliss Dec 2023

A View Of Black Speculative Past And Future: An Interview With Tim Fielder, Julian Chambliss

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Every Tongue Got To Confess: Zora Neale Hurston As Afrofuturist, Nicole Huff Dec 2023

Every Tongue Got To Confess: Zora Neale Hurston As Afrofuturist, Nicole Huff

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To understand Hurston’s influence on the black speculative practice and engagement in Afrofuturist practice, we must first understand the period she was working within— the Harlem Renaissance.


Desire, Difference, And Productivity: Reflections On “The Perverse Child” And Its Continued Relevance, Christopher Hewlett May 2023

Desire, Difference, And Productivity: Reflections On “The Perverse Child” And Its Continued Relevance, Christopher Hewlett

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This article is concerned with the relationships through which children have been born, raised, and made into Amahuaca people over the past 75 years, and within contemporary Native Communities on the Inuya River since their formation beginning in the 1980s. The process of making children into kin among Amahuaca people is similar to that described throughout much of lowland South America. The production, preparation, and sharing of proper food (manioc, plantains, fish, and game) as well as manioc beer are central aspects of sociality and the formation of specific kinds of bodies. While the processes of sharing substances, demonstrating care, …