Black science fiction

Black science fiction or black speculative fiction is an umbrella term that covers a variety of activities within the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres where people of the African diaspora take part or are depicted. In the late 1990s a number of cultural critics began to use the term Afrofuturism to depict a cultural and literary movement of thinkers and artists of the African diaspora who were using science, technology, and science fiction as means of exploring the black experience.

Participants

Writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ken Sibanda, Octavia E. Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Charles Saunders - the Father of Sword & Soul, Milton Davis, Balogun Ojetade , Alicia McCalla, L.M. Davis, Alan Jones, Wendy Raven McNair, Valjeanne Jeffers, Minister Faust and Edward Uzzle are among the writers who continue to work in black science fiction.

The Carl Brandon Society is a group originating in the science fiction community dedicated to addressing the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Bibliography

• Dark Matter is a collection series of stories and essays from writers of African descent.
• Name, Adilifu (2008). Black space: imagining race in science fiction film. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292717459.
• Grayson, Sandra M. (2003). Visions of the third millennium: Black science fiction novelists write the future. Africa World Press. ISBN 9781592210220.

See also

• Black Science Fiction Society
• Daathrekh
• List of black superheroes
• NETERS