Rahsaan Mahadeo RIDGS Book Event
Cross-disciplinary discussion of discussing the book Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black
Event Date & Time
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Event Location
Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, Pillsbury Hall 120
310 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Join the Center for RIDGS Studies for a panel event discussing the book Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black by Dr. Rahsaan Mahadeo (Assistant Professor, African American & African Studies) from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
With:
- Megan Finch (Assistant Professor, English)
- Ryan Oto (Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction)
- Bisola Wald (PhD candidate, Curriculum and Instruction)
- Chaun Webster (PhD candidate, Creative Writing)
This will be a hybrid event with a Zoom attendance option.
Funk the Clock is about those said to be emblematic of the future yet denied a place in time. 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.
In 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.
Through 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. Funk the Clock 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."