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Article: Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film

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Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film Adilifu Nama. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008.

Adilifu Nama's Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film is a well-structured and examplerich exploration into the presence of African Americans and the meaning of blackness in science fiction movies. His theoretical approach to the study combines the poststructural fluidity of meaning, where racial discourse waits to be interpreted, and contention that meaning is a product of a specific culture and can only exist in that particular culture (5). Nama maintains the balance by contextualizing and historicizing each of the examined films in detail and shows how science ...

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