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Afrofuturism Resources Guide: Academic Journals

Afrofuturism Resources Guide

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Finding Journals on Afrofuturism

As Afrofuturism is a subject that spans across many academic fields, please find the following list of some journals that may contain articles on Afrofuturism and related topics. 

  • African American Review
    A scholarly aggregation of essays on African-American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. 
  • Black Music Research Journal
    Includes articles about the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music.
  • Black Theology: An International Journal
    Publishes research on the theological expression of faith among Black people across the world to explore the nature of Black religious experiences.
  • Callaloo
    The premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora, publishes original work by and critical studies of black writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide.
  • Extrapolation
    The first academic journal in the field of speculative fiction.
  • Journal of Popular Culture
    Publishes academic essays on all aspects of popular or mass culture.
  • Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
    An interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in Literature, Art, Drama, Film, and Popular Media.
  • Journal of West Indian Literature
    It reflects our continued commitment to provide a regional and extra-regional forum for the dissemination and discussion of Caribbean literary and artistic culture.
  • Matatu
    Journal on African literatures and societies dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue between literary and cultural studies.
  • Research in African Literatures
    The premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa.
  • Science Fiction Studies
    Devoted to the study of the genre of science fiction, broadly defined.
  • Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research
    Focuses upon the juncture between art, technology and the mind, drawing from academic research and often unorthodox approaches.
  • The Journal of Pan-African Studies
    Trans-disciplinary on-line journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the African experience around the world.
  • Utopian Studies
    Publishing scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects related to utopias, utopianism, utopian literature, utopian theory, and intentional communities.