Productively Destabilized: Black Studies and Fantastic Modes of Being

The 2008 release of Richard Iton's In Search of the Black Fantastic marked a significant moment in debates about the relationship between culture and politics within black studies. His concept of "the black fantastic" destabilizes notions of modernity by grappling with the people, expressions, knowledges, and modes of being written out of a Western modern structure. This article explores what Iton's concept of the black fantastic offers black studies as a methodology.