ABSTRACT
Afrofuturism intersects imagination, technology, the future, and liberation – a way of imagining possible futures through a Black/Afrocentric cultural lens. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and occupations are designed to attract White men who are heterosexual, abled-bodied, Christian or atheist, and at least middle class. The STEM practices that breed a Eurocentric White male norm are framed to ignore how they privilege some groups while oppressing and silencing historically marginalized groups. Urban school districts face challenges such as funding, disproportionate punishing of Black urban students, and staffing shortages; however, this is doubly true for students in STEM courses where cultural, racial, economic, and gender divides are prominent. Black social reality is overdetermined, with statistics that put our educational, financial, and medical well-beings at the bottom of the well, thereby creating a demoralizing doomsday scenario for the future of Black people.
