Daylanne English is Professor of English at Macalester College. She is the author of Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature (2013) and Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (2004). She is currently at work on a digital humanities project on Afrofuturism.
Daylanne English
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How Other Halves Live
In disciplines ranging from philosophy to computer science, the term “black box” describes a system that cannot be understood internally, by how it works, but only externally, in terms of its inputs and outputs. Walter Mosley, with his recent science fiction novel Inside a Silver Box, offers a sociopolitical riff on the concept. Although the […]
