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Lavender, Isiah, III

(?   -    ) US academic, currently associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where he researches and lectures on African American Studies and Science Fiction. From 2004 onwards he has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Extrapolation and Science Fiction Studies; his first book was Race in American Science Fiction (2011). Since then he has edited two academic studies of the uses and abuses of Race in SF [see Checklist below], while in his essay collection Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement (2019) he discusses Afrofuturism as a method to explore the interconnections between Technology and race. [RR]

Isiah Lavender III

born

works

nonfiction

• Race in American Science Fiction (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2011) [nonfiction: hb/]
• Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2019) [nonfiction: coll: Afrofuturism: hb/]
• Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2020) with Lisa Yaszek [nonfiction: Afrofuturism: hb/]

works as editor

nonfiction

• Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2014) [nonfiction: anth: hb/Jaz C Alexander]
• Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2017) [nonfiction: anth: hb/Jaz C Alexander]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 15:22 pm on 26 April 2024.
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