Film, Video What Was, What Is & What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism
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- What Was, What Is & What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism
- Summary
- Author/playwright Tananarive Due, novelist N.K. Jemisin and poet Airea D. Matthews discuss the origins and extensions of Afrofuturism in a conversation moderated by Sheree Renée Thomas.
- Event Date
- February 12, 2019
- Running Time
- 1 hours 7 minutes 33 seconds
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- video
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What Was, What Is & What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism. 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8669/.
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(2019) What Was, What Is & What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8669/.
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What Was, What Is & What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism. 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8669/>.
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