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Atlanta, GA | Posted: October 29, 2014
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"The Bannekerade: Genius, Madness, and Magic in Black Science Fiction" appears in *Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction* (2014).
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Lisa Yaszek
Lavender AnthologyLisa Yaszek, LMC professor and director of undergraduate studies, recently published an essay that explores the centuries-old tradition of African-American authors that have modeled stories about black scientific genius on the figure of Revolutionary-era free black scientist Benjamin Banneker.
Yaszek's essay appears in the anthology, Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction (2014), which was edited by Isiah Lavender and published by the University Press of Mississippi.
