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. BrancheNation and the Cold War: Reflections on the Circuitous Routes of African Diaspora Studies
Lisa BrockThe Fact of Blackness
Frantz FanonIntroduction: 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 FrancisPoetics of Relation
Edouard GlissantExercises For rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy
Guillermo Gomez Peña and Roberto SinfuenteThe Power of the Story
Michael-Rolph Troullotiss Canadiana Confronts the Mythologies of Nationhood and the im/possibility of African Diasporic Memory in Toronto
Camille TurnerExternal Link
Wild Seed (1980)
Octavia E. ButlerDawn (1987)
Octavia ButlerWatchmen (1986)
Alan MooreIf Beale Street Could Talk (2006)
James BaldwinFrom Our Collection
CAS 2016-17 Catalog
Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology
Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan, Jason de SantoloExternal Link
Black Futures
Kimberly Drew, Jenna WorthamHeavy
Kiese LaymonBe Holding
Ross GaySOS: Poems 1961 - 2013
Amiri BarakaThe Art of J. Berry Vol. 1 Faces
D. D. CurryExpressions of Black Heritage Through 50 Faces
Pamela Conyers-HinsonHillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing
Amy Sonnie and James TracyExternal Link
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. JohnsonThe 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 AjaniFreedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (2018)
Monica M. WhiteEnvironmental Ethics: A Short Introduction (2019)
Robin AttfieldTuntún de pasa y grifería (1937)
Luis Palés MatosThe Kingdom of This World (1949)
Alejo CarpentierIn the Castle of My Skin (1953)
George LammingThe Ripening (1959)
Edouard GlissantPalace of the Peacock (1960)
Wilson HarrisHills of Hebron (1962)
Sylvia WynterBlack Midas
Jan CarewTablero: doce cuentos de lo popular a lo culto (1978)
Aida Cartagena PortalatinZami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)
Audre LordeBake-Face and Other Guava Stories (1986)
Opal Palmer AdisaHer True-True Name (1989)
Pamela MordecaiTexaco (1992)
Patrick ChamoiseauThe Armstrong Trilogy (1994)
Roy HeathAutobiography of My Mother (1996)
Jamaica KincaidMidnight Robber (2000)
Nalo HopkinsonWhen the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio (2004)
Marta Moreno VegaPedagogies 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