This episode features our conversation with Dr. DuEwa Frazier, which was live-streamed on December 7, 2024.
Dr. DuEwa Frazier is an award-winning author, poet, writer, editor, professor, creative entrepreneur, keynote speaker, arts and education leader, and digital creator. She is the editor of Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts (Routledge, 2024). DuEwa's writing focuses on contemporary education issues, arts and culture, hip - hop culture, women's interest, and opinion. Her TEDx Talk, “Word is Bond,” was given in 2019. She has produced work in multiple areas in connection to writing, arts, and education management. Her research and work in the education field has focused on culturally responsive pedagogies, educational leadership, professional development, contemporary education issues, coaching and mentoring, arts and education initiatives, and student achievement.
She is the author of several volumes of poetry and books for young readers including Shedding Light From My Journeys, Stardust Tracks on a Road, Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In, Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems, Deanne in the Middle, Quincy Rules, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees, and Baby Ray's Old School vs. New School Hip-Hop Party. She is the founding publisher of Lit Noire Publishing and creator of Nerdacity Podcast and Afrofutures Pod.
Featured in this episode is the recently released anthology, Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts and DuEwa’s expansive body of work as a writer, performer, editor, educator, and scholar.
Introduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and interdisciplinary topics across multiple genres in Black literature, film, and music. From Afrofuturism’s origins to the present, this critical volume features scholarly works, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction which illuminates on the contributions of notable Afrofuturists such as Octavia Butler, Sun Ra, N.K. Jemisin, Janelle Monáe, Nnedi Okorafor, Saul Williams, Prince, and more. The volume highlights the impact of films such as Black Panther (2018, 2022), The Woman King (2022), and They Cloned Tyrone (2023) and covers a variety of essential topics giving students a comprehensive view of the legacy of storytelling and the tradition of “remixing” in Black literature and arts. This volume makes connections across academic subject areas and is an engaging reader for pop culture and media film studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, Black and Africana studies, hip-hop studies, creative writing, and composition and rhetoric.
To learn more about DuEwa and her expansive canon of work, please visit www.duewaworld.com.
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