Submission Guidelines

Afrofuturist Studies & the Speculative Arts establishes the transdisciplinary study of speculative futures, arts, and approaches that intersect ethnicity, blackness, and indigeneity. Emerging from the social movements and arts of the Afrodiaspora, the speculative themes of Afrofuturism have inspired new perspectives, philosophies, and technologies of decolonization while shaping the evolution of the arts from popular music to science fiction. This series examines the global influence of Afrofuturism from popular culture to political movements, from literature, media, and philosophy to social sciences. We welcome proposals for monographs and edited collections that further our understanding of Afrofuturism, past, present, and future; and that advance the study of speculative futures across disciplines, cultures, and ethnicities. By cultivating rigorous and inventive approaches to scholarship, we encourage critical intersections with African Futurism, Indigenous Futurisms, LatinXfuturism, Sinofuturism, Arabfuturism, Subcontinental, Queer and other speculative futures. This series also seeks to further discourse around decolonizing philosophy and Afrofuturist Studies, from theory to praxis, through remix cultures and speculative design in media, arts, and performance. We are open to diverse perspectives from across the (post)humanities and social sciences, including emergent and radical discourses addressing all aspects of media, sound, literature, culture, ecology, gender, and race.

Requirements

We require that all potential authors and editors read and follow Lexington’s submission guidelines.

Lexington’s Qualifications. As an independent academic press, Lexington Books requires most, if not all of its authors and contributors to have earned a Ph.D in the respective field at the time of publication.

Series Aesthetics. While we welcome author ideas and suggestions for book design and artworks, decisions over final design, including overall book design and artwork, resides with Series Editors. This is to ensure a consistent series aesthetic that reflects our scholarly mission across multiple publications. We do not use stock images for covers, and we work closely with artists affiliated with our research networks who provide us with unique designs. We are open to unique artwork suggestions from submitting authors that directly reflect a book’s contents (such as artwork by an artist discussed in the text), given the necessary licensing and permissions are provided by the authors.

Please submit proposals to the Series Editors via email at: afrofuturiststudies AT gmail DOT com.

Series Guidelines

This series seeks to cultivate the field of Afrofuturist Studies and other speculative epistemologies in the arts and social sciences that intersect diasporic and marginalized perspectives from ethnicity, blackness, and indigeneity. As such, we expect authors and editors to have working knowledge of the developing field of Afrofuturist Studies and other such “futurisms.” In particular we expect submissions to engage with contemporary scholarship while being aware of its scholarly history, including but not limited to the development of “Afrofuturism 2.0”. We are happy to point authors towards the following resources, though this is a (necessarily) incomplete list, a starting point for further inquiries: