Abstract
In episode seven of Lovecraft Country (2020), titled "I Am," Hippolyta, the most scientifically literate character in the series, transcends into the heavens to Earth 504 and is granted self-affirmation by the god-like womanly figure called I Am. While on Earth 504, Hippolyta gains the power to "name herself" anything in any place and time that she can imagine. Unfortunately, the identities that Hippolyta chooses would otherwise prove extremely difficult for her to attain on terrestrial 1950s Earth due to racism and sexism. Hippolyta's experiences result from what sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields call "racecraft," or "the mental terrain [and] pervasive belief" by otherwise scientifically literate persons that race exists as a scientific fact rather than as a result of human action and imagination (18).
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