Black and Brown Planets : The Politics of Race in Science Fiction.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Coloring Science Fiction -- PART ONE: Black Planets -- The Bannekerade: Genius, Madness, and Magic in Black Science Fiction -- "The Best Is Yet to Come" -- or, Saving the Future: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Reform Astrofuturism -- Far beyond the Star Pit: Samuel R. Delany -- Digging Deep: Ailments of Difference in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" -- The Laugh of Anansi: Why Science Fiction Is Pertinent to Black Children's Literature Pedagogy -- PART TWO: Brown Planets -- Haint Stories Rooted in Conjure Science: Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Andrea Hairston's Redwood and Wildfire -- Questing for an Indigenous Future: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony as Indigenous Science Fiction -- Monteiro Lobato's O presidente negro (The Black President): Eugenics and the Corporate State in Brazil -- Mestizaje and Heterotopia in Ernest Hogan's High Aztech -- Virtual Reality at the Border of Migration, Race, and Labor -- A Dis-(Orient)ation: Race, Technoscience, and The Windup Girl -- Reflections on "Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled," Twenty-Four Years On -- Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled: The Race Question in American Science Fiction -- CODA -- "The Wild Unicorn Herd Check-In": The Politics of Race in Science Fiction Fandom -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

Literary explorations into the radical, hopeful racial futures imagined by science fiction.

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