Even though Afrofuturist works are set in fictional worlds, they provide a blueprint for social, political and economic systems free from exploitation and oppression.
The Maria Fire billows above Santa Paula, California on Oct. 31.
AP/Noah Berger
‘California is America fast-forward,’ writes one scholar. Does that mean that the dystopian infernos that have consumed parts of the state are simply a picture of what awaits the rest of America?
Costumes from the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
Jim Lo Scalzo