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Speculative blackness : the future of race in science fiction / Andre M. Carrington.

By: Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]Description: 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816678952 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816678969 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.009/896073 23
LOC classification:
  • PS374.N4 C37 2016
Contents:
Introduction: the whiteness of science fiction and the speculative fiction of blackness -- Josh Brandon's blues: inventing the black fan -- Space race woman: Lieutenant Uhura beyond the bridge -- The immortal storm: permutations of race in Marvel comics -- Controversy and crossover in milestone media's icon -- The golden ghetto and the glittering parentheses: the once and future Benjamin Sisko -- Dreaming in color: racial revisions in fan fiction -- Coda.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the whiteness of science fiction and the speculative fiction of blackness -- Josh Brandon's blues: inventing the black fan -- Space race woman: Lieutenant Uhura beyond the bridge -- The immortal storm: permutations of race in Marvel comics -- Controversy and crossover in milestone media's icon -- The golden ghetto and the glittering parentheses: the once and future Benjamin Sisko -- Dreaming in color: racial revisions in fan fiction -- Coda.

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