Race in American Science Fiction

Index

261 Index affirmative action, 53, 105, 213 Africa, 13, 14, 33, 46, 54, 68, 81, 83, 86, 97, 109, 110, 129, 216 (see also dark Continent); African, 14, 32, 36, 37, 49, 61, 64, 77, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 92, 100, 107, 109, 110, 111, 131, 200, 223, 224, 234n11, 234n5, 239n6 African American literature, 38–39, 59 African American president, 18, 211, 214. See also black president, Obama African Americans, 4, 14, 18, 33, 34, 39, 40, 53, 63, 96, 100, 101, 103, 104, 109, 110, 115, 134, 212, 217, 235n7, 239n5. See also blacks afrofuturism, 11, 15, 18, 36, 37–39, 41 (see also Mark Dery); afrofuturist, 212 AI (artificial intelligence), 17, 26, 128, 181, 185, 190, 191, 193–196, 205, 228, 229. See also artificial persons, technicity ailments of race, 16, 117, 118–156, 239nn1–12. See also contagion, disease, epidemic, germs Aldiss, Brian, 25, 26, 27, 50, 202–203 alien other, 25, 72, 135. See also other, racial other aliens, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 21, 22, 25–26, 28, 34, 35, 39, 41, 45, 56, 63, 64, 69, 70, 71–74, 80, 89, 90, 98, 115–117, 121, 123, 125, 133, 135–137, 142, 159, 161, 162, 163, 172, 173, 176, 194, 203, 217, 219. See also extraterrestrial alien contact, 15, 58, 65, 71, 106, 161 alien encounter, 8, 25, 38, 234n1 alienation, 18, 20, 37, 38, 156, 176, 212, 217, 229 alternate history, 7, 8, 15, 39, 49, 58, 80–83, 87, 165 American Indians, 12, 13. See also Indian, Native Americans, noble savages androids, 7, 9, 27, 127, 163, 164, 165, 180–182, 190, 191, 199–201, 240n10. See also artificial persons, technicity antebellum, 1, 57, 59, 61, 62, 65, 69, 71, 78, 92, 236n6. See also debt slavery, “peculiar institution,” and slavery anti-utopian, 107. See utopian and dystopian Appadurai, Arjun, 158. See also ethnoscape artificial persons, 8, 10, 17, 39, 61, 75, 186, 190, 191, 192, 201, 204, 209. See also technicity Asian Americans, 13, 53 Asians, 13, 14, 24, 70, 130, 168, 223, 239n6, 240n1. See also Oriental and “yellow peril” Asimov, Isaac, 16, 33, 41, 60–62, 63, 64, 262 · index 72, 74, 85, 96; I, Robot, 33, 60–61, 62, 197 Asimovian, 196 astrofuturism, 36, 39, 41. See also DeWitt Kilgore Baldwin, James, 210 Barnes, Steven, 14, 16, 32, 234n12, 237n17, 241n3; Lion’s Blood, 80–87, 88; Zulu Heart, 80, 87 Battlestar Galactica (BSG), 9–10, 43, 204–209, 235n9, 241nn4,5,6. See also Cylons Bear, Greg, 16, 239n2; Blood Music, 154–156 Beatty, Greg, 81, 87, 237n17 Bell, Bernard, 57. See also neo-slave narrative Bell, Derrick, 16; “The Space Traders,” 106, 115–117, 238n11 bigotry, 62, 76, 77, 143, 147, 151, 197, 220. See also intolerance biology, 41, 43, 49, 141, 142, 144, 147, 151, 160, 184. See also science black militant near-future fiction, 36, 40–41. See also Kali Tal black power, 40–41, 110, 112, 163. black president, 211–220. See also African American president, Bill Clinton, Obama blackface, 5, 165 blackground, 1, 6–8, 10–11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27–28, 32, 33, 39, 221 blackness, 9, 18, 19, 24, 96, 119, 120, 161, 212. See also whiteness blacks, 4, 5, 6, 14, 24, 32, 34, 39, 41, 45, 54, 57, 61, 69, 80, 81, 90–93, 97–101, 110–113, 115, 116, 120, 121, 123, 126, 127, 129–134, 138, 148, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 211, 223, 227, 228, 233n5, 237n14, 238n4, 239nn5,6. See also African Americans black/white binary, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 32, 42, 88, 156, 157, 181, 220, 223, 228, 231 Bould, Mark, 11, 36, 40 Brackett, Leigh, 89, 90, 238n1; “All the Colors of the Rainbow,” 89–90 Bradbury, Ray, 16, 106, 172; The Martian Chronicles, 96–100; “The Other Foot,” 100–102 Brin, David, 16, 237n14; Kiln People, 75–80, 88, 189, 237n13 Buckell, Tobias S., 14, 234n13 Bukatman, Scott, 26, 27 Butler, Octavia E., 10, 15, 16, 19, 25, 32, 33, 34, 37, 81, 158, 236n6, 240n1, 241n3; “Bloodchild,” 63, 69–70, 142; “The Evening and the Morning and the Night,” 141–142, 143, 144–151, 239n12; Kindred, 63, 64–69, 80, 88, 142, 237nn8,9; Parable of the Sower, 21–22, 239n11; Parable of the Talents, 22–24; “Speech Sounds,” 142, 177–179, 240n9; Xenogenesis trilogy (Lilith’s Brood), 63, 70–74, 142, 237nn10,11 Campbell, John...