Black Utopias

In Black Utopias, Jayna Brown explores how Black culture uses musical, literary, and mystical practices as forms of creative worldmaking that challenge traditional notions of subjectivity and humanism. Through the lives of notable Black women mystics, musicians, and speculative fiction writers, she examines how these practices foster alternative states of being and collective identity. Brown highlights moments when marginalized groups imaginatively transcend societal boundaries, celebrating their existence as part of a cosmic and transformative experience.