📚 5 Books mentioned in "How Afrofuturism Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW" of Stuff You Should Know

but uh there was a guy in 1857 uh named Martin Delaney who was a a kind of a jack of all trades he was a doctor and a journalist and an author and abolitionist uh he wrote a book a novel called Blake or the Huts of America uh which was as a lot of these are alternate histories that kind of suppose like What would life be like had either slavery not happened or slavery happened in a different way or what if you know the white people were enslaved and uh black people were on top

The host mentions Martin Delaney and his 1857 novel, describing its alternate history premise.

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uh and there's a TV show last year or the year before from her book Kindred

The host mentions a TV show adaptation of Octavia Butler's book Kindred.

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but there was a guy named Edward Johnson who wrote um light ahead for the Negro uh in 1901 and he imagined a black man who uh was transported to a socialist version of the United States in 2006 where things were much much better

The host mentions Edward Johnson and his 1901 book, describing its futuristic premise.

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she also had um a series called the xenogenesis series from the 80s parable of the SE was the beginning of a a series that she wrote in I think it came out in 1993 and that was the one that got everybody's attention

The host mentions Parable of the Sower as the beginning of a series by Octavia Butler.

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Janelle Monae she's the poster child of Afro futurism right now with her concept album dirty computer and a book set in the same world memory librarian

The host mentions Janelle Monae's book, Memory Librarian, which is set in the same world as her album Dirty Computer.

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