Session Details

Saturday, 29 December

652. Race and the Sci-Fi Future

9:00–10:15 p.m., Truffles, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Division on Popular Culture

Presiding: Joel Dinerstein, Tulane Univ.

1. “Speaking in Tongues: Anticolonial Thought in Octavia E. Butler,” Patricia Melzer, Temple Univ.

2. “The Bluest Eyes; or, ‘So Say We All’: Recoding the Chicano Body in Battlestar Galactica,” Domino Renee Perez, Univ. of Texas, Austin

3. “Captain Benjamin Sisko, the First African American Character in TV’s Future Imaginary,” Joel Dinerstein

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