Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Session 017: Author Meets Critics: Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time while Young, Perceptive, and Black
Room: Hancock Parlor

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer: Rose M. Brewer, University of Minnesota

Presider: Zophia Edwards, Johns Hopkins University

Description: 

This session will place Rahsaan Mahadeo in conversation with critics of Funk the Clock. Funk the Clock is about those said to be emblematic of the future yet denied a place in time. Hence, it is both an invitation and provocation for Black youth to give the finger to the hands of time, while inviting readers to follow their lead. In revealing how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how racism takes time, Mahadeo makes clear why conventional sociological theories of time are both empirically and theoretically unsustainable and more importantly, why they need to be funked up/with.

Author:

Rahsaan H. Mahadeo, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Critics:

Jalia L. Joseph, James Madison University

David Stovall, University of Illinois Chicago

Kaleb Germinaro, University of Illinois Chicago

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