Imagining Future Histories: Black Speculative Fiction
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- Andrea Hairston
- Pauline Hopkins
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- N. K. Jemisin
- Victor LaVelle
- Karen Lord
- Walter Mosley
- Nnedi Okorafor
- Ishmael Reed
- Kwanza Osajyefo
- Tony Puryear and Ericka Alexander
- Carl Hancock Rux
- Eric Dean Seaton
- Nisi Shawl
- Geoffrey Thorne
- Amos Tutuola
About this guide
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
Welcome
This guide was first created for Black History Month 2019 when the UI Libraries collaborated with the Afro-American Cultural Center to create a themed book display, "Imagining Future Histories" featuring Black and African American Sci-Fi writers and their works. "Imagining Future Histories" is in connection to the 2019 "American Dream" Theme Semester, for which the Libraries and Afro House received a 2019 Theme Semester Grant. The grant went towards the funding of the Helen Lemme Reading Club Library housed at the Afro-American Cultural Center, as well as a speaker series at the University of Iowa, bringing in Sheree Thomas, editor of Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Like the "Imagining Future Histories" book display, the borrowing library and author series focus attention on the genre(s) of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy writing and Afro-futurist Art as a way to help our campus and community dream up future histories that can inform the important work we need to do currently as future ancestors.
In this guide you will find information on the authors and their works that are featured on display. Please note that this guide is not an exhaustive list of African American and Black writers in Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction. If you have any questions or concerns, as well as any authors or titles you want us to include, please email us at katie-devries@uiowa.edu or jenay-solomon@uiowa.edu.
Books on Display
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Call number: PZ7.1.A24 Chi 2018
Publication date: 2018-03-06 -
Call number: PS3552.A6855 L56 2002
Published: 2002-02-13 -
Call #: PS3552.A6855 Z85 2003
Published: 2003-03-19 -
Call number: PS3552.A6855 G74 2006
Publication: 2006-06-27 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 A6 1995
Publication Date: 1995-09-01 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 F47 2005
Publication Date: 2005-09-08 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 K5
Publication Date: 1979-06 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 W5
Publication Date: 1980-07 -
Call number: PS3552.U84 D38 1997
Publication Date: 1987-05 -
Call number: PS3552.U84 P38
Publication: 1976 -
Call number: PS3552.U84 P37 1993
Publication: Oct. 1993 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 P373 1998
Publication date: 1998-11 -
Call number: PS1292.C6 C7 1968
First published: 1899 -
Call number: PS3554.E422 A6 2003
Publication date: 2003-04-08 -
Call number: PS3554.E422 A85 1995
Publication date: 1995-07-28 -
Call number: PS3552.A6855 Z85 2003
Published: 2012-04-10 -
Call Number: PS3554.E422 D47 1974
Published: January 1975 -
Call number: E185.61 .D83 2007
Published: 1920 -
Call number: PS3507.U325 D3 2007
Published: 1928 -
Call number: PS3554.U3143 L5 2002
Publication date: 2002-01-01 -
Call Number: PS3554.U3143 B53 2000
Publication date: 2000-06-06 -
Call number: PS3554.U3143 B58 2008
Publication due: 2008-06-01 -
Call number: PR9199.4.M57 C69 2004
Published: 2004-08-03 -
Call number: PS1999.H418 O3 2004
Published: 1902 -
Call number: PR9199.3.H5927 B76 1998
Published: 1998-07-01 -
Call number: PR9199.3.H5927 M53 2000
Published: 2000-03-01 -
Call number: PR9199.3.H5927 S25 2003
Published: 2003-11-12 -
Call number: PS647.A35 M65 2003
Publication date: 2003-04-01 -
Call number: PR9199.3.H5927 N48 2007
Published: 2007-02-23 -
Call number: PN6071.S33 S6 2004
Published: 2004-10-01 -
Call number: PN6120.95.S33 O37 2015
Published: 2015-04-07 -
Call number: PS3562.A8629 B54 2009
Published: 2010-03-09 -
Call number: PS3562.A8629 E28 2002
Published: 2002-11-12 -
Call number: PR9230.9.L67 R43 2010
Published: 2010-07-06 -
Call number: PR9230.9.L67 G35 2015
Published: 2015-01-06 -
Call number: PS3563.O8845 F88 2001
Published: 2001-11-12 -
Call number: PS3563.O8845 W38 2006
Published: 2006-01-03 -
Call number: PS3563.O8845 B6 1998
Published: 1998-11-02 -
Call number: PZ7.O4157 Aka 2017
Published: 2017-10-03 -
Call number: PZ7.O4157 Ak 2011
Published: 2011-04-14 -
Call number: PS3615.K67 Z34 2008
Published: 2008-02-18 -
Call number: PN6728.B523 B5256 2018
Published: 2017-12-13 -
Call number: PS3615.K67 S43 2007
Published: 2007-10-02 -
Call number: PS3615.K67 W46 2010
Published: 2010-06-01 -
Call number: PS3615.K67 L34 2015
Published: 2015-07-14 -
Call number: PS3568.E437 J85 2011
Published: 2011-03-05 -
Call number: PS3568.E437 R4 1986
Published: 2000-10-01 -
Call number: PS3568.E437 M8
Published: 1996-06-11 -
Call number: PS3568.U86 P34 1997
Published: 1998 -
Call Number: PS3568.U86 T35 2004
Published: 2003-07-01 -
Call number: PS648.S3 D29 2000
Published: 2000-07-18 -
Call number: PR9387.9.T8 P38 1987
Publication: 1987-03-09 -
Call #: PR9387.9.T8 P38 1987
Publication: 1952 -
Call #: PR9387.9.T8 W5 1981
Publication: 1981 -
Call #: PR9387.9.T8 V55 1990
Published: 1990-05-01 -
Call #: PR9387.9.T8 Y6 1986
Published: 1987-09-05
Afro-Futurist Films
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Video record 32926 DVD
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