![]() In his utopian 1974 film, Space is the Place, the avant-garde musician Sun Ra would claim to a group of disaffected African American youth, “Everything you desire upon this planet and never have received will be yours in outerspace.” Ra’s vision of racial uplift based on a fantasy of the black race’s willful relocation to another planet explicitly repurposed the meanings attached to outerspace as a site of white colonial expansion, linking the physical disorientations of space to a figurative disorientation of traditional social hierarchies.
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