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Archer Straw, Petrine, Tanya Barson, Peter Gorschlüter and Liverpool Tate Gallery. Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic. Liverpool London: Tate Liverpool ; In association with Tate Publishing ; Distributed in the USA by Harry N. Abrams, 2010.
Barr, Marlene S., ed. Afrofuture Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Bould, Mark. “The Ships Landed Long Ago: Afrofuturism and Black Sf.” Science Fiction Studies 34, no. 2 (2007): 177-186.
Bristow, Tegan. “We Want the Funk: What Is Afrofuturism to the Situation of Digital Arts in Africa?” Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research10, no. 1 (2012): 25-32.
David, Marlo. “Afrofuturism and Post-Soul Possibility in Black Popular Music.” African American Review 41, no. 4 (2007): 695-707.
Dery, Mark. “Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel Delaney, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 92, no. 4 (1993): 735-778.
Eshun, Kodwo. More Brilliant Than the Sun : Adventures in Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books, 1998.

Eshun, Kodwo. “”Further Considerations on Afrofuturism”.” The New Centennial Review 3, no. 2 (2003): 287-302.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Gilroy, Paul. Against Race : Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.

Golden, Thelma, Harlem Studio Museum in and Hamza Walker. Freestyle. New York, NY: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001.
Griffith, Rollefson. J. “The “Robot Voodoo Power” Thesis: Afrofuturism and Anti-Anti-Essentialism from Sun Ra to Kool Keith.” Black Music Research Journal 28, no. 1 (2008): 83-109.

Hamilton, Elizabeth C. “Analog Girls in a Digital World: Fatimah Tuggar’s Afrofuturist Intervention in the Politics of “Traditional” African Art.”Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 33, (2013): 70-79.
Hicks, Cinqué. “Circuit Jamming.” International Review of African American Art 23, no. 3 (2011): 2-8.
Hobson, Janell. “Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing The “Digital Divide” In Film and Media.” Feminist Media Studies 8, no. 2 (2008): 111-126.
Hubert, François-Xavier. “Welcome to the Afterfuture. (French).” Art-Press, (2000): 50-55.
Jackson, Sandra and Julie Moody-Freeman. “The Genre of Science Fiction and Black Imagination.” African Identities 7, no. 2 (May 2009): 127-132.
Keith, Naima J. and Zoe Whitley, eds. The Shadows Took Shape. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2013.
Mayer, Ruth. “”Africa as Alien Future:” The Middle Passage, Afrofuturis, and Postcolonial Waterworlds.” Amerikastudien 45, no. 4 (2000): 555-566.
Nelson, Alondra. “Afrofuturism: Past-Future Vision.” Colorlines 3, no. 1 (2000).
Nelson, Alondra, Guest ed. “Afrofuturism.” Social Text 20, no. 2 (Summer 2002).
Ongiri, Amy Abugo. Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Ramírez, Catherine S. “Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin.” Aztlan, Spring2008 2008, 185-194.
Richardson, Jared. “Attack of the Boogeywoman: Visualizing Black Women’s Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism.” Art Papers Magazine 36, no. 6 (2012): 18-22.
Thomas, Sheree R. Dark Matter : A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. New York: Warner Books, 2000.
White, Michelle-Lee, Keith Piper, Alondra Nelson, Arnold J. Kemp and Erika Dalya. “Afrotech and Outer Spaces.” Art Journal 60, no. 3 (2001): 91-104.
Yaszek, Lisa. “An Afrofuturist Reading of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” Rethinking History 9, no. 2/3 (2005): 297-313.
Yaszek, Lisa. “Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the History of the Future.” Socialism & Democracy 20, no. 3 (2006): 41-60.