Table of Contents

Future Texts; An Introduction - Alondra Nelson; Gallery:"The Spinner and the Spindle," "Village Spells," and "In Touch" - Fatima Tuggar; "Feenin": Posthuman Voices in Contemporary Black Popular Music - Alexander Weheliye; Race, Sex and Nerds: from Black Geeks to Asian American Hipsters - Ron Eglash; That Just Kills Me: Black Militant Near-Future Fiction - Kali Tal; Unequal Developments: "Afro-Futurism: Dystopic Unity," "Mother Nature," and "Vertical" - Tracie Morris; Making the Impossible Possible: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson - Alondra Nelson; Gallery: "Eight Frames from Tominex," "Four Frames from the Enforcer," "Four Interface Screens" and "Letter to Shareholders" from Bitter Nigger Inc. - Tana Hargest; The Revolution Will be Digitized: Afrocentricity and the Digital Public Sphere - Anna Everett; Contributors

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Afrofuturism explores culturally distinct approaches to technology

About the Author

Alondra Nelson is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program at New York University and is the Ann Plato Fellow at Trinity College. She will begin teaching in the African American Studies and Sociology Departments at Yale University in the fall of 2002.