Whose time is it?: How Black youth build new temporalities by funking the clock

Mahadeo, Rahsaan

doi:10.51428/tsr.rfxt8279

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“…Recognizing temporality as a site of racial disadvantage, Black people have pushed back against the carceral nature of time through what Mahadeo (2022) calls "funking the clock." To funk the clock Black people have moved to a different rhythm than what is demanded by mainstream conceptions of time, often through using what Kemi Adeyemi (2019) refers to as "slowness."…”

Section: Background: Carceral Logics Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recognizing temporality as a site of racial disadvantage, Black people have pushed back against the carceral nature of time through what Mahadeo (2022) calls “funking the clock.” To funk the clock Black people have moved to a different rhythm than what is demanded by mainstream conceptions of time, often through using what Kemi Adeyemi (2019) refers to as “slowness.” To be able to change pace, Black people have sought out spaces that affirm the ways they often move against the grain of mainstream conceptions of time. To avoid having their day-to-day experiences overdetermined by white logics of time, Black people have pursued education at HBCUs in hopes the environment will be more attuned to their racialized experiences (Johnson 2017).…”

Section: Background: Carceral Logics Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

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“I don’t want to do time, I want to save it”: Carcerality of time and Black temporal resistance

Miles

2023

Time & Society

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The criminalization of Blackness has led to premature death, high incarceration rates, and psychological stress, all of which impact Black people’s temporal horizons. Working in conversation with scholars who empirically documented how Blackness is criminalized and time is racialized, this work explores the degree in which carceral understandings of time provide a framework to better comprehend Black people’s temporal experiences. Data for this study include in-depth interviews with six students and 16 graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across six universities in the southern United States and 22 months of observations at a HBCU in southeastern United States. The results indicate that the respondents experience temporal traps that restrict the temporal possibilities of Black people and temporal stasis as they feel trapped within an ongoing history of anti-Black violence. They narrate a desire to “take their time” and “save time” to resist the dominant temporal order. The operative “take” signifies the creating of temporal possibility through uncoupling time’s relation to racial structures and “save” signifies freeing time from the structural demands of white supremacy.

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Section: Background: Carceral Logics Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%