Mark Dery's scientific contributions
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... Ironically, however, the literature describing the social significance of this emancipatory approach to reframing narratives for people that are categorically marginalized (Freire, 1970), arguably in all areas of social structures (e.g., education, economic well-being, the criminal justice system, housing, voting rights and access to health care), largely omits the voices of Afrofuturists themselves. A possible explanation for this is the fact that the term Afrofuturism first appeared in 1993 (Dery, 1993). Scholars and critics of popular cultural who began using the term Afrofuturism were therefore logically either retrospective in their discussion of the genre or dedicated to explaining how contemporary works of art (i.e., painting, dance, music, literature, graphic novels) aligned with the themes ascribed to Afrofuturism. ...
