ABSTRACT
This essay examines how the global and even extraterrestrial aspects of Blackness escape and exceed national and imperial orders through situated readings within a specific national/imperial context—the US—and generally refrains from taking on the geopolitical complexity that extending its approach to other locales would entail. Put differently, this essay focuses on a movement of Blackness from Afro-Asianism to Afrofuturism that emerges from the context of US racialization to encompass the rise and decline of the US as the dominant global superpower over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
