{"product_id":"funk-the-clock-transgressing-time-while-young-perceptive-and-black-hardback-9781501774201","title":"Funk the Clock; Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black (Hardback) 9781501774201","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFunk the Clock\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRahsaan Mahadeo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501774201\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e294 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFunk the Clock\u003c\/i\u003e work offers a distinctive understanding of how a selected population can experience connections between time and race... This work also challenged this reviewer to move beyond a narrow view of \"acceptable\" ways to resist this conformity and to see the participants' efforts not as a lack of structure but as resistance to existing social constructs.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFunk the Clock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is about those said to be emblematic of the future yet denied a place in time.\u003c\/b\u003e Hence, this book 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn revealing how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how racism takes time, Rahsaan 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough his study of a youth center in Minneapolis, Mahadeo provides examples of Black youth constructing alternative temporalities that center their lived experiences and ensure their worldviews, tastes, and culture are most relevant and up to date. In their stories exists the potential to stretch the sociological imagination to make the familiar (i.e., time) strange. \u003ci\u003eFunk the Clock\u003c\/i\u003e forges new directions in the study of race and time by upending what we think we know about time, while centering Black youth as key collaborators in rewriting knowledge as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Whose time is it?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Teefing Time\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Makings of a \"Maybe Environment\"\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Keisha doesn't get the call before Kimberly.\"\u003cbr\u003e 5. Tabanca Time\u003cbr\u003e 6. Transgressing Time in the Fast Life\u003cbr\u003e 7. Why is the Time Always Right for White and Wrong for Us?\u003cbr\u003e 8. Prescience within Present Orientations\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608208896280,"sku":"9781501774201","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/funk-the-clock-transgressing-time-while-young-perceptive-and-black-hardback-9781501774201","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}