CDN440H1

Afrofuturisms: Black Canadian Perspectives

This course explores Afrofuturism through Black Canadian perspectives and experiences. As an interdisciplinary course, it draws on both critical and creative methods from Black feminist, decolonial, critical race and critical sociological theories, as well as Black cultural traditions and expressions in music, literature, social movements and the arts as pivotal spaces of possibility and resistance, where alternative futures are both imagined and realized for Black people in Canada. Topics to be explored include Black freedom and resistance, and the roles that speculative fiction, the arts, education, technology and African Indigenous spiritual traditions play in Black Canadian framings and approaches to Afrofuturism.