Isiah Lavender III

Isiah Lavender III is Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he researches and teaches courses in African American literature and science fiction. He is author of Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement; editor of Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction and Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction, both published by University Press of Mississippi; and coeditor of Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century.

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Black and Brown Planets

The Politics of Race in Science Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

Literary explorations into the radical, hopeful racial futures imagined by science fiction

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Dis-Orienting Planets

Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A star map of the galactic voyage from Yellow Peril and techno-Orientalism to dazzling stories by and about Asians

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Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson

University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the queer Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor known for her novels Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine

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