![]() In February 2017, for example, a damning report about Germany was issued by the United Nation’s Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, claiming that African refugees were regularly faced with racism and violence in Germany. But the problem of anti-Blackness is also a German problem. ![]() Up until now, much of the scholarship surrounding these questions has focused on the United States. ![]() (I capitalize “Black” because I use it as a political category rather than a term that suggests separate races exist.) From the out- set, some of the key questions Afrofuturism has been concerned with are: Who is human? To what extent have Black people been excluded from the category of humanity? How does the legacy of dehumanizing Blacks (both in slavery and colonialism) continue to plague Black lives, whether those of unarmed Black men shot by police in the US or the lives of Black migrants who die in the Mediterranean? Articulating the African diasporic experience through science fiction allowed Black musicians, artists, and writers to highlight the alienating, inhumane, and otherworldly treatment of Black people throughout history. ![]()
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