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Item: W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Comet."

New York, United States

Item: W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Comet."

New York, United States

Item: W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Comet."

New York City, Financial District

Item: W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Comet."

"Franks Plantation," Natchez, Mississippi

Item: Martin R. Delany, "Blake; or the Huts of America."

Wall Street, Financial District, New York, United States

Item: Afrofuturistic Predictions: Will Equality Be Achieved in One Hundred Years?

Media: Aerial view of lower Manhattan, circa 1920s. Images from https://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2019/11/05/aerial-images-1920s-1930s/

Jamaica. Soucouyant. Caribbean Folklore.

Item: The Fine Line Between Greed and Self-Preservation

Media: Soucouyant. Image from Pinterest:Unknown Origins Paranormal Team. Web.

Columbia County, New York, United States. Fiction setting for the film somewhere in Upstate New York. Filming location in Fairhope, AL.

Item: Afrofuturism in Jordan Peele's film "Get Out."

Media: "Get Out" Fictional setting in Upstate New York. Image from filming location in Fairhope, AL.

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Item: Janelle Monáe as Cindi Mayweather: The ArchAndroid

USC, Los Angeles, California (setting for the short story ; characters are students here)

Item: Ableism in a Discriminatory World in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night."

Brixton, South London, United Kingdom

Item: Attack the Future!

Media: Brixton, London, UK. Image from Tripadvisor. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186338-d189226-r741809451-Brixton-London_England.html

"Wakanda" (fictional country, general location )

Item: Afrofuturism Meets Black Panther.

Media: T'Challa & Nakia. Image from Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki. https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Nakia

African Continent

Item: Afrofuturism Meets Black Panther.

Harlem, New York

Item: An AfroFuturist framing of "Bitter Root."

Media: Bitter Root: Red Summer Special Issue. Chuck Brown, David F. Walker, Sanford Greene, Dietrich Smith, Lisa K. Weber, et al.

Black No More. Book cover, 1971. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10037, United States

Item: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them: An Interpretation of "Black No More"

Media: "Black No More." New York: Collier Books, 1971.

"Crookman Sanitarium," Harlem, New York

Item: Solving the "Race Problem" in George Schuyler's Black No More.

Oakland, California, United States. Home to the fictional character Erik "Killmonger" Stevens.

Item: Killmonger’s Battle with Oppression in the Film "Black Panther."

Media: "Black Panther." Film location: basketball court and Killmonger's apartment building. Image: Reddit.

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Item: The Precedent of Black Exploitation in Derrick Bell's "Space Traders."

Media: Derrick Bell's "Space Traders." (1994) Adaption for television directed by director Reginald Hudlin and writer Trey Ellis as part of the HBO anthology TV movie Cosmic Slop.

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