1 Challenge Day: Tradition and Revolution in Wakanda
2 Transforming Wakanda: Justice (or Not?) in Black Panther
3 Sins of the Fathers: Historical Injustice and Its Repair in lack Panther
4 “What Would You Have Wakanda Do about It?” Black Panther, Global Justice, and African Philosophy
5 T’Challa’s Liberalism and Killmonger’s Pan-Africanism
9 Part II Wakanda Forever! 6 Panther Virtue: The Many Roles of T’Challa 7 Should Wakanda Take Over the World? The Ethics of International Power 8 T’Challa, the Revolutionary King: Legitimation Crises in Wakanda 9 T’Challa’s Machiavellian Methods 10 Understanding the Reigns of T’Challa and Killmonger through Hannah Arendt
10 Part III The Heart-Shaped Herb 11 Beastly Boys: The Racial-Sexual Politics of Meat 12 Panther Mystique: Wakandan Feminism Demystified 13 The Ancestral Plane: Metaphysical Mystery or Meaningful Metaphor? 14 The Afterlife of Erik Killmonger in African Philosophy 15 Wakandan Resources: The Epistemological Reality of Black Panther’s Fiction
11 Part IV Vibranium 16 When Tech Meets Tradition: How Wakandan Technology Transcends Anti-Blackness 17 Vibranium Dreams and Afrofuturist Visions: Technology, Nature, and Culture 18 Black Panther’s Afrofuturism: Reconnecting Neural and Cultural Pathways 19 Wakanda and the Dilemma of Racial Utopianism 20 The Value of Vibranium
12 Part V Black Lives Matter 21 Dismantling the Master’s House with the Master’s Tools 22 An Impossible Return? (Anti)Colonialism in/of Black Panther 23 T’Challa’s Dream and Killmonger’s Means: Echoes of MLK and Malcolm X 24 “It’s Time They Knew the Truth about Us! We’re Warriors!”: Black Panther and the Black Panther Party 25 Fear of a Black Museum: Black Existentialism
13 Index
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