1. Cosmology: INDIGENOUS NORTH AND MESOAMERICAN COSMOLOGIES There are relatively few generalizations that can legitimately be made about Native American Cosmology as a whole

2. Afrofuturism, a term coined in the 1990s by Mark Dery in his article “Black to the Future,” describes music, literature, and art that contains elements of science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, historical fiction, Afrocentricity, and non-Western cosmologies

3. “Afrofuturism is a literary and cultural aestheticthat combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past

4. Cosmology - Cosmology - Steady state theory and other alternative cosmologies: Big bang Cosmology, augmented by the ideas of inflation, remains the theory of choice among nearly all astronomers, but, apart from the difficulties discussed above, no consensus has been reached concerning the origin in the cosmic gas of fluctuations thought to produce the observed galaxies, …