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  An AfroFuturist framing of "Bitter Root."

  The comic book "Bitter Root" uses afrofuturism and its sub-genres to frame and reimagine the events of the "Red Summer of 1919"
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  Ableism in a Discriminatory World in Octavia Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night."

  "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by Octavia Butler captures many societal problems we see, specific to race and disabilities. Butler uses metaphor in this short story to examine the intersections of race, discrimination, oppression, mental illness, disability, and healthcare through an afrofuturist mindset.
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  Afrofuturism in Jordan Peele's film "Get Out."

  Jordan Peele's "Get Out" is a revolutionary film that depicts a Black protagonist in the Horror Noire genre. The film falls within the the afrofuturist cannon because of its role reversals and the way in which Peele subtly addresses racial trauma and the legacy of slavery in a horror story.