Interview of Kurt W. Wagner, University librarian of the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Memorial Library
Kurt W. Wagner, University librarian of the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Memorial Library, speaks about his work with Dr. Walter Greason, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Counseling and Leadership at Monmouth to create a series of Afrofuturism displays within the Monmouth University Library. He gives his definition of afrofuturism as a re-framing of a narrative that began as far back as 1619 and the realization that one people keeping another in bondage was not right, and that the final emancipation is the ability to speculate, dream, have fantasy and create science fiction; to dream in ways that were more accessible to white people and people with more privilege. Wagner is interviewed by Julian Chambliss, Professor of English at Michigan State University.
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- In Collections
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Voices of the Black Imaginary
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2019-09-06
- Interviewees
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Wagner, Kurt W.
- Interviewers
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Chambliss, Julian C.
- Subjects
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Wagner, Kurt W.
Greason, Walter
Academic library directors
Afrofuturism
History
African Americans
Liberty
Power (Social sciences)
New Jersey--West Long Branch
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:33:38
- Venue Note
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Recorded 2019 September 6
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 45473
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b13824698
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