Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Structured Absence and Token Presence
• Chapter 2. Bad Blood: Fear of Racial Contamination
• Chapter 3. The Black Body: Figures of Distortion
• Chapter 4. Humans Unite! Race, Class, and Postindustrial Aliens
• Chapter 5. White Narratives, Black Allegories
• Chapter 6. Subverting the Genre: The Mothership Connection
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

Analyzing many of the most popular and influential science fiction films of the past five decades, this book presents the most comprehensive work to date on how race and "blackness" are imagined in science fiction film

About the Author

Adilifu Nama is Associate Professor and Chair of the African American Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University.

Reviews

"Black Space stands as fresh, insightful work that fills an obvious and significant gap in the critical and theoretical discussion of the African American absence/presence (along with the broader issues of race and difference) in science fiction cinema. Besides the occasional anthology essay or journal article, I can think of no work by a single author that presents such sustained, 'cover to cover' discussion of this vital and underexplored area in black representation." Ed Guerrero, New York University, author of Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film and Do the Right Thing