All Readings
The Concepts of Ori and Human Destiny in Traditional Yoruba Thought: A Soft- Deterministic Interpretation
Oladele Abiodun BalogunExternal Link
Afrofuturism 2.0 and The Black Speculative Art Movement - Notes on a Manifesto
Reynaldo AndersonExternal Link
Performance Trace: Staged Actions, Live Art, and Performance Made for the Camera
Yona BackerExternal Link
Women in Masquerade and Performance
Judith BettelheimMalungaje: Toward a Poetics of Diaspora
Jerome C. Branche
Nation and the Cold War: Reflections on the Circuitous Routes of African Diaspora Studies
Lisa Brock
The Fact of Blackness
Frantz Fanon
Introduction: Documenting Blackness at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Jason Fox & Mia MaskExternal Link
Figuring Blackness in Modern and Contemporary African Diaspora Visual Cultures
Jacqueline Francis
Poetics of Relation
Edouard Glissant
Exercises For rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy
Guillermo Gomez Peña and Roberto Sinfuente
The Power of the Story
Michael-Rolph Troullot
iss Canadiana Confronts the Mythologies of Nationhood and the im/possibility of African Diasporic Memory in Toronto
Camille TurnerExternal Link
Wild Seed (1980)
Octavia E. Butler
Dawn (1987)
Octavia Butler
Watchmen (1986)
Alan Moore
If Beale Street Could Talk (2006)
James BaldwinFrom Our Collection
CAS 2016-17 Catalog
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (2009)
Judith Ann CarneyExternal Link
Grassroots Activism: An Exploration of Women of Color’s Role in the Environmental Justice Movement (2009)
Shirley A. Rainey & Glenn S. Johnson
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (2013)
Mark FiegeExternal Link
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2015)
Robin Wall KimmererExternal Link
Are there two different versions of environmentalism, one “white”, one “black”? (2014)
Brentin MockExternal Link
We Bleed Like Mango (2017)
Ashia Ajani
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (2018)
Monica M. White
Environmental Ethics: A Short Introduction (2019)
Robin Attfield
Tuntún de pasa y grifería (1937)
Luis Palés Matos
The Kingdom of This World (1949)
Alejo Carpentier
In the Castle of My Skin (1953)
George Lamming
The Ripening (1959)
Edouard Glissant
Palace of the Peacock (1960)
Wilson Harris
Hills of Hebron (1962)
Sylvia Wynter
Black Midas
Jan Carew
Tablero: doce cuentos de lo popular a lo culto (1978)
Aida Cartagena Portalatin
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)
Audre Lorde
Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories (1986)
Opal Palmer Adisa
Her True-True Name (1989)
Pamela Mordecai
Texaco (1992)
Patrick Chamoiseau
The Armstrong Trilogy (1994)
Roy Heath
Autobiography of My Mother (1996)
Jamaica Kincaid
Midnight Robber (2000)
Nalo Hopkinson
When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio (2004)
Marta Moreno Vega
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred (2005)
M Jacqui AlexanderExternal Link
Iowa City center's visiting muralist hopes to build a virtual Black mythology from the ashes of an 1898 white supremacist coup d'etat (2020)
Isaac HamletExternal Link
Afrofuturist artists highlight Black history you likely didn’t learn in school with new website (2020)
Genevieve TrainorExternal Link
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Anaïs Duplan On “Becoming a Better Lover”—Not Just in a Romantic Sense (2020)
Dessane Lopez CassellExternal Link
Exhibit Time Now For Ghosts explores connection between blackness and the natural world
Samantha MurrayExternal Link
Four Groups Are Recipients of New Grants to Support Black Arts Organizations (2018)
Monica UszerowiczExternal Link
Space (or Iowa City) Is the Place: Inside the New Center for Afrofuturist Studies (2016)
Carey DunneExternal Link
New Center for Afrofuturist Studies brings Iowa City to the intersection of art, race and technology (2016)
Genevieve TrainorExternal Link
Afro futurism: Collaboration between PromptPress and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies is coming
Isaac HamletExternal Link
To confront systemic racism in Iowa City, a mural won't be enough
Dellyssa EdinboroExternal Link