Adilifu Nama is our 2009 Peter C. Rollins Book Award Winner for Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film (U of Texas P, 2008). He is an Associate Professor in the Pan African Studies Department of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, Northridge.

About Black Space:

"Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues of concern in our own society. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan's Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report, Black Space offers a thorough-going investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness." - University of Texas Press