(offered every other Fall, Dr. Doreen Thierauf) Prerequisite: Six semester hours from ENG 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206 This course analyzes the various ways in which writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers of the African diaspora use Afrofuturism to critique racial injustice in the present and imagine free black futures. Writers covered include Octavia Butler, Ta-Nehisi Coates, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor and many others.