{"id":470,"date":"2015-12-16T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/?p=470"},"modified":"2017-04-18T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T08:33:18","slug":"a-critique-of-afrofuturism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/a-critique-of-afrofuturism\/","title":{"rendered":"A critique of Afrofuturism ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Storm-Saulter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"&quot; aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Storm-Saulter-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"760\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">For more infos or details :<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/anniepaul.net\/2013\/11\/23\/a-critique-of-afrofuturism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read <em>A Critique Of Afrofuturism&#8230; and more<\/em> published on Active Voice, Annie Paul&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stormsaulter\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Saulter&#8217;s Twitter Account<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ytashawomack\" target=\"_blank\">Ytasha Womack&#8217;s Twitter Account<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Artwork :<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">M.Y. for B(s)ttF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nowadays deep seated issues of race, class, slavery etc. are mashing up with modern life and expectations of what life should be [&#8230;] it\u2019s refreshing 2 imagine a future where Afro culture\/style exists in highest beauty without always connecting it to a painful past&#8221; Quoting tweets by @stormsaulter &#8212; &#8220;The imagination spurs creativity and scientific inquiry alike #afrofuturism [&#8230;] triggers the imagination &#038; helps many see beyond convention.&#8221; Quoting tweets by @ytashawomack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[34,33],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syncretics","tag-black-future-art","tag-afrofuturism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}