Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Federico Campagna Meredith McKinney

Meredith McKinney

and the profligate use of resources must also prioritize the repair and upkeep of existing buildings

Hundreds of years and hundreds of creative hands-mystics and artists often working in collaboration-have transformed what was essentially a parlor game into a source of divination and system of self-exploration

Patricia Valencia

Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Federico Campagna Meredith McKinneyIn Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers