Book ID: CBB525996602

Race, Aliens, and the U.S. Government in African American Science Fiction (2011)

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This thesis deals with contemporary African American science fiction. It focuses on three texts by Derrick Bell, Octavia Butler, and Walter Mosley and examines the ways in which they convert the dominantly white SF genre. By addressing non-traditional issues such as racism, racial boundaries, and the politics of species, these alien encounter stories demonstrate that it is not the intruders from outer space who are the real threat to U.S. society but their own (white) U.S. Government. Thesis. (Series: MasteRResearch - Vol. 2)

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Authors & Contributors
Brown, Jeannette E.
DeGraw, Sharon
English, Daylanne K.
Farber, Paul Lawrence
Gray, Fred D.
Kinchy, Abby J.
Journals
American Quarterly
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Current Anthropology
Environmental History
History and Technology
Journal of American History
Publishers
Michigan State University
Cambridge University Press
Cornell University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NewSouth Books
Concepts
Science and race
African Americans
African Americans and science
Biology
Evolution
Primary and secondary education
People
Wertham, Fredric
Carver, George Washington
Daly, Marie Maynard
Du Bois, William Edward B.
Ickes, Harold LeClair
Wilson, William Julius
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Modern
Places
United States
Great Britain
Ireland
Alabama (U.S.)
Australia
Canada
Institutions
Tuskegee Institute
Iowa State College, Ames
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic
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