Description: Delali Kumavie examines how aviation and flight have shaped Black lives and the global Black cultural imagination, arguing that representations of air travel reveal the structures circumscribing Black existence.
Review Quotes: The Black Aerial Imagination is the book Africana studies has been waiting for. Ambitious in scope, expansive in reach, and interdisciplinary in approach, it encompasses the diverse geographies of Africa, the Americas and Europe to examine how aviation technologies and flight have shaped Black lives--and Black 'livingness'--on a global scale.--Deborah E. McDowell, author of "The Changing Same" Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory