Segregated time /
"When Martin Luther King Jr. argued on behalf of civil rights he was told that he was “too soon.” Today, those demanding reparations for slavery are told they are “too late.” What time is it? Or perhaps the appropriate question is: whose time is it? These questions point to a phenomenon of segr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "When Martin Luther King Jr. argued on behalf of civil rights he was told that he was “too soon.” Today, those demanding reparations for slavery are told they are “too late.” What time is it? Or perhaps the appropriate question is: whose time is it? These questions point to a phenomenon of segregated time: how certain political subjects are viewed as occupants of different time zones, how experiences of time diverge across peoples, and how these divergent temporal spheres entwine to serve white supremacy. While racial segregation and inequality are typically conceived in terms of space, Segregated Time explores how they are also sustained through impositions on human time. In this study, P. J. Brendese takes a time-sensitive approach to race as it pertains to the acceleration of human disposability, dynamic identity formation, and the production and allocation of economic goods. The chapters examine the temporal borders of migration politics, how the extended lifetimes of some are built on the foreshortened lives of others, how racial stigma conveys debt and “subprime time,” and how whiteness functions as a store of credit through time. Segregated Time illuminates the temporal orders whereby racial others are regarded as behind the times, violently cast out of time, compelled to “do time” in a carceral society, and forced to live on borrowed time in an epoch of climate catastrophe. Drawing upon a range of Africana, Latinx, and Indigenous political thought, Brendese advances an innovative theory of “white time” as a possessive, acquisitive, colonizing force"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 247 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197535752 0197535755 9780197535776 0197535771 9780197535769 0197535763 |