504: Dr. Reynaldo Anderson on Afrofuturism and the Rise of the Black Speculative Tradition

In this episode, interviewer Tiffany Pennamon talks with Dr. Reynaldo Anderson about Afrofuturism and the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Festival. This interview follows a keynote presentation (“Afrofuturism: The Rise of the Black Speculative Tradition”) that Dr. Reynaldo Anderson gave at the 2020 Zora Neale Hurston Academic Conference. Anderson discussed the history and emergence of the Black American Speculative Tradition, the work being done by his Black Speculative Arts Movement, his own mystic family legacies traced back to Africa, and his vision for the next iteration of Afrofuturism. This episode is part of the Every Tongue Got to Confess podcast series, which is produced by Dr. Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University) and Holly Baker (University of Central Florida). The podcast series consists of interviews with participants in the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. The purpose of the podcast series is to explore the experiences and stories of communities of color through the words of Zora Festival attendees.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/everytonguegottoconfess/1017/thumbnail.jp