Introduction / Kevin M. Strait
Afrofuturism as space and being / Ytasha L. Womack
Interstellar / Tiffany E. Barber
Black women change the face of spaceflight / Matthew Shindell
I came to Africa on a spaceship / Ytasha L. Womack
Notes from the cosmic underground : a history of the Afrofuturist movement and the changing world order / Reynaldo Anderson
We are the stars : Black speculative narratives and the history of the future / John Jennings
W.E.B. Du Bois : documenting the present, reinterpreting the past, and imagining the future / William S. Pretzer
There's a reason / N. K. Jemisin
Dialogues in space : Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany / Herb Boyd
Black Panther : an escape to Utopia / Herb Boyd
Black joy as resistance / Ariana Curtis
Dreams rush to meet me : Afrofuturist looks and looking / Eve L. Ewing
Transforming the future through dress, fashion, and costume / Elaine Nichols
Afrofuturistic art / Tuliza Fleming
Rendering Black futures / Michelle Joan Wilkinson
On the third great day : Black artistry, activism, and community in the web3 future / De Nichols
Just look over your shoulder: the music of Afrofuturism / Mark Anthony Neal
The Nubians of Plutonia : ancient futures in the music of Sun Ra / Steven Lewis
Afrofuturism : a design for living / Nona Hendryx
The gendered contours of Afrofuturism / Angela Tate
Sonic spaces : excerpts from an interview with Vernon Reid
Afterword / Alondra Nelson.