[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.

Recorded 2019 September 6