...Tao Leigh Goffe Working on the B-side of time, this essay considers the way Afro-futurism often configures time as nonlinear and entangled. In doing so, it looks at contemporary apocalyptic forms of storytelling, Watchmen, Parasite, Black Mother, Exit West , and On Such a Full Sea . The way...

...Shaun Myers This essay traces how a range of black cultural producers in the post–civil rights era represent and contest the transhistorical phenomenon I term imperative time , the dominant construction of time within racial capitalism as a demand or pressure exerted on black life. More...

...Julius B. Fleming, Jr. This essay examines the significance of time to the production of black ontology and thus to the field of black studies. It takes as its point of departure the field-changing call to think more critically about the enduring legacies of chattel slavery, particularly how...

.../lingvan-2016-0070 . Margo Natalie Crawford What Time Is It When You re Black? What time is it when you re black? In the poetry volume Finna, Nate Marshall (2020) offers finna as an answer to this question. Marshall defines finna as 1. going to; intending to [rooted in African American Vernacular...

...Sarah Stefana Smith My first inclination to this prompt, what of Black temporalities in crisis, was to ask a small group of Black familiars (friends and colleagues) to talk with me about their current experience of time in quarantine, and under the present articulations of racial injustice...

...: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Du Bois W. E. B. (1903) 1999 . The Souls of Black Folk . New York : W. W. Norton . English Daylanne K. 2013 . Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature...

... the meaning and mode of Black politics and thought. At the same time, when placed in conversation with earlier Black political-cultural formations, Black joy and abolition help crystalize the current conjuncture in Black thought as rooted in a temporality that is simultaneously now, before, and not yet...

... black subjects exist within the university space and beyond. References Appadurai A. 1996 . Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Davies B. Bansel P. 2005 . “ The Time of Their Lives? Academic Workers...

... movements like Black Lives Matter have disrupted, interrupted, and reoriented the social landscape toward a disconnection in the white supremacist archival practices that have long defined Western postcolonial culture. Now, young Black Americans, in particular, challenge notions of time, lineage, and world...

... Bois irrefutably exposed the racism underlying the prevailing Dunning school of interpretation of Reconstruction. In its place he advanced ideas, radical for the time, that have become commonplace in historical writing—among them that slavery was the fundamental cause of the Civil War, that blacks were...

... of their resistance to slavery. In allowing us to discern otherwise obscured historical continuities between reproductive exploitation in the past and present, black feminism emerges as a privileged political heuristic for biocapitalist times. Indeed, works by Angela Davis, Darlene Clark Hine, Gayl Jones, Octavia...

... Katherine . 2013 . “ Plantation Futures .” Small Axe 17 , no. 3 : 1 – 15 . Mervosh Sarah . 2018 . “ Remains of Black People Forced into Labor after Slavery Are Discovered in Texas .” New York Times , July 18 . www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/us/grave-convict-lease-texas.html...

...gamEdze; gamedZe This piece is a conversation that explores the space-time paradigm of capitalism as it manifests at the university and the alternative of “shutdown,” a strategy used by black students to interrupt the institution’s business as usual. On the barricades, behind the barricades...

.... Emergent ecosystems are teeming with grasshoppers, katydids, praying mantises, and other edible insects, as well as marsupial game animals. Children are finding happiness in the hap of what happens in these multispecies worlds. At the same time, plans by technocrats in distant metropolitan centers to turn...

... that postapartheid has been unable to overcome. The antiapartheid generation now in political power in South Africa came of age on Cold War–era formulations of revolutionary time in which the future was parsed in stages toward socialism. In particular, a Marxist-Leninist analysis was formulated for South Africa...

... for creating the radio station Tropiques FM.1 Shortly after the broadcast of the CNN video, he had gained renown for a video that went viral in which he called on black populations to protest and assume what he presented as a communal responsibility; indeed, he referred to the migrants in Libya numerous times...

... 1980, was open for use by anyone willing to learn to maintain and operate the equipment, which was considered social property. It was the site of production of thousands of leftist books, pamphlets, posters, and flyers over the course of the 1970s. In her text, Lorraine Perlman describes her time...

..., as constituted by anti-trans and anti-black optics. Against this scene stands Time magazine naming 2014 as the “Trans Tipping Point.” I trace how positive representation, which is to say the methodology of assimilation, is offered as the primary, and perhaps exclusive, space of struggle. In contrast, through...

... understandings of political agency. Recent work in Black studies offers significant ways of understanding how subaltern actors improvise and forge unfamiliar forms of agency in times of brutal constraint. With reference to this work, the article argues that understanding crisis not only as an “object” of study...

..., as in these black ink paintings, I often close my eyes as I make the lines. The canvas witnesses my nonlinear, non-Cartesian, queer experience of time and space, grief, and love. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Finn Enke Paintings Artist Statement: Finn Enke Watercolor and ink help me dwell...