ABSTRACT
Alexander uses allegorical storytelling to discuss racial themes of Black futurity. He presents Daija LaShay Brown, a teenage heroine living on a fictional “Planet Earth” set in the near future. Daija becomes the first African American to return from a Space Race Delegation and uncovers the plot to rid Planet Earth of its Black population during her victory mission to Planet Mars. He employs CRT to: (1) examine Daija’s dilemma and explore increasingly racialized U.S. education policies; and (2) situate speculative fiction and Afrofuturism as tools to counter deficit narratives and position a Black specificity in (mathematics) education.
