Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

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This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations of readers who have not had the chance to explore the scope and diversity among African-American writers. Contents Fiction. Sister Lilith/Honoree Fanonne Jeffers -- The comet/W.E.B. Du Bois -- Chicage 1927/Jewelle Gomez -- Separation anxiety/Evie Evie Shockley -- Tasting songs/Leone Ross -- Can you wear my eyes/Kalamu ya Salaam -- Like daughter/Tananarive Due -- Greedy choke puppy/Nalo Hopkinson -- Rhythm travel/Amiri Baraka -- Buddy Bolden/Kalamu ya Salaam -- Aye, and Gomorrah.../Samuel R. Delany -- Ganger (ball lightning)/Nalo Hopkinson -- The becoming/Akua Lezli Hope -- The goophered grapevine/Charles W. Chestnutt -- The evening and the morning and the night/Octavia E. Butler -- Twice, at once, separated/Linda Addison -- Gimmile's songs/Charles R. Saunders -- At the huts of Ajala/Nisi Shawl -- The woman in the wall/Steven Barnes -- Ark of bones/Henry Dumas -- Butta's backyard barbecue/Tony Medina -- At life's limits/Kiini Ibura Salaam -- The astral visitor Delta blues/Robert Fleming -- The space traders/Derrick Bell -- The pretended/Darryl A. Smith -- Hussy Strutt/Ama Patterson ; Essays. Racism and science fiction/Samuel R. Delany -- Why Blacks should read (and write) science fiction/Charles R. Saunders -- Black to the future/Walter Mosley -- Yet do I wonder/Paul D. Miller -- The monophobic response/Octavia E. Butler.