John Storey writes that all culture is inherently political,[1] and Black popular culture is no exception to this, ever since the Civil Rights Era, black popular culture has been significantly influenced by politics. Donald Bogle even went as far as saying that during the Civil Rights Era it was near impossible to to differentiate between politics and aesthetics.[2]
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Afrofuturism in the twenty-first century is longer bound to its its original definition, a term once dealing with cultural aesthetics has come to be known as less of an aesthetic and more of a philosophy of science and the universe. [3]
- ^ Storey, John (2015). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. Routledge. ISBN 9781317591238. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ Iton, Richard. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199733606.
- ^ Anderson, Reynaldo. "Afrofuturism: The Digital Turn and the Visual Art of Kanye West" (PDF). Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved 22 March 2017.