Alondra Nelson

Alondra Nelson is an American theorist, writer and academic. She is Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Studies and Sociology at Yale University. She writes about the intersections of science, technology, medicine and African diasporic experience.

She established the Afrofuturism on-line community in 1998. In 2005, she was named one of [http://blackvoices.aol.com/workmonmain/careers/bitpg2020805 '13 Notable Blacks in Technology'] by AOL Black Voices.

Education and career

Nelson received her bachelor's degree "(magna cum laude)" in Anthropology in 1994 from the University of California, San Diego. She obtained a Ph.D. in American Studies in 2003 from New York University.

She recently contributed a chapter to "Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture" (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.

Bibliography

*Nelson, Alondra, Thuy Linh Tu, Debra Wexler Rush and Alicia Headlam Hines. (1997). Communities on the verge: Intersections and disjunctures in the new information order. "Computers and Composition", 14(2), 289-300.
* [http://www.arc.org/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=G&Product_Code=color-3_1 Nelson, Alondra. (2000) 'Afrofuturism: Past Future Visions' "Colorlines" (Spring)]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0814736041 Nelson, Alondra, Thuy Linh Tu and Alicia Headlam Hines. (2001) "Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life". New York University Press, ISBN 0814736041.]
* [http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=359&BookID=285 Reviews of "Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life" (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies)]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0822365456 Nelson, Alondra. (2002) "Afrofuturism: A Special Issue of Social Text". Duke University Press, ISBN 0822365456.]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0813536944 Nelson, Alondra. (2006) A Black Mass as Black Gothic: Myth and Bioscience in Black Cultural Nationalism in eds. Collins and Crawford, "New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement" Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0813536952.]
* [http://medicine.plosjournals.org/archive/1549-1676/4/9/pdf/10.1371_journal.pmed.0040271-L.pdf Braun, Lundy, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Duana Fullwiley, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alondra Nelson, et al. (2007) Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? "PLoS: Medicine" 4(9): 1423-28.]

External links

* [http://www.yale.edu/sociology/faculty/pages/nelson/ Alondra Nelson, Department of Sociology, Yale University]
* [http://www.yale.edu/afamstudies/aboutfaculty.html Department of African American Studies, Yale University]
* [http://afrofuturism.net/text/about.html Afrofuturism Community]
* [http://afrofuturism.net Afrofuturism.net]