Abstract

Contributors to Utopian Studies and members of various utopian studies networks have acknowledged that Black utopias—in all the faces that utopianism can take—are still largely neglected and underrepresented in our publications, meetings, and theorizations (this also goes for utopias outside of White, Western normativity in general). Studies from within our field that sought to take the first steps to address this exclusion convincingly argue that, in the wake of Antiblackness (to use Christina Sharpe's term), utopianism takes on different forms—spatial and temporal—than that from a position of White privilege. Irvin J. Hunt's Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement, a study on... Read More.