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table of contents
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. Whose Time Is It?
  4. 2. Teefing Time
  5. 3. The Makings of a “Maybe Environment”
  6. 4. “Keisha Doesn’t Get the Call before Kimberly”
  7. 5. Tabanca Time
  8. 6. Transgressing Time in the Fast Life
  9. 7. Why Is the Time Always Right for White and Wrong for Us?
  10. 8. Prescience within Present Orientations
  11. Conclusion
  12. Methodological Appendix: Interview Schedule
  13. Notes
  14. Selected Bibliography
  15. Index

Index

ableism, 251n85

Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Ferguson), 174

abolitionism, unlearning and, 200–201, 253nn5–6

Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 199

Adeyemi, Kemi, 52

“Adore” (Prince), 199

adulthood, Black youth transition to, 110–13, 164–65

affirmative action, 148

African Religions and Philosophy (Mbiti), 158–59

Afrofuturism, 188, 251n91

Afro-modernity, 37

Afro-pessimism, 215n26

agency, criminalization of, 86

Ahmed, Sara, 66–67, 89, 148; on whiteness, 15

a’ightness, Black excellence vs., 181–82, 249n59

Alexander, Michelle, 247n30

Alexander, M. Jacqui, 4

Allison, Kevin, 143

ambiguity: CP Time and, 44–45, 48–49; white discomfort with, 72, 157–66

American Community Survey (ACS), 93–94

American Dream, fast life and, 143–45

American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Rawick), 39

American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 24, 80

Aminzade, Ronald, 37

ancestry tests, 96

Anderson, Elijah, 137–38, 183–84, 248n43

androcentric logic, misogynoir and, 74–79

Angélique, Marie-Joseph, 92

anthropology, time and, 214n24

anti-Blackness: ableism and, 251n85; Black youth awareness of, 111–13, 150–54, 177–84; capitalism and, 73–74; increase in, 168; loss of time and, 62–68; in Midwest, 90–99; misogynoir and, 78–79; police violence and, 86–88; racialization and, 19. See also race, racialization, and racism

Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), 238n19

Anzaldúa, Gloria, 126

arson, urbanized space and, 127–28

Asian community, in Twin Cities, 98–99, 233n37

assimilation: critical race theory and, 22, 218n76; immigrant resistance to, 237n13; Indigeneity and, 95–96

The Atlantic magazine, 24–25, 91–94

Australia, conquest of Indigeneity in, 95

Auyero, Javier, 10, 249n72

Badu, Erykah, 153

Baldwin, James, 104–5, 159, 190–91, 213n2

Bambara, Toni Cade, 204

Barthold, Bonnie J., 38–39, 75, 99

beauty: as cognitive labor, 76–79; racialized and gendered standards of, 54–56

Berlant, Lauren, 183

Biden, Joe, 167

Billson, Janet, 216n45

biography, tabanca time and, 126–36

biological time, 72

Birth, Kevin, 237nn12–13

The Black Atlantic (Gilroy), 37

Black Codes, 86

Black excellence, construction of, 181

Black history, suppression of curriculum on, 115–19

Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Rios), 81–82

Black Lives Matter movement, 177

Black Midwest Initiative, 90–94, 231n7

Blackness: Black youth’s embrace of, 160–66; contributions to knowledge and, 9; CP Time linked to, 41–49; crime and criminalization linked to, 42–43, 183–84, 189–93, 224n67; epiphenomenal time and, 180; fungibility of, 172–73, 243n29; futurity and, 176–84; Indigeneity and, 8, 89–90, 94–99; in Midwest, 89–99; phenomenology of, 89–94, 232n17; physics of, 148; police response to, 84–88; qualitative collapse of, 9, 215n33, 219n78; racial time and, 37–38; relational racial identity and, 96–99; space and, 31–32, 235n68; surveillance and criminalization of, 69–74; tabanca time and, 126–36; time and, 31–32; white misappropriation of, 161–62

Black privilege, 156–58, 165

Black Radical Tradition, runaways and fugitives in, 7–8

Black Reconstruction in America (Du Bois), 146–47

Black’s Law Dictionary, 147

Black studies scholarship: funk and, 4; urban sociology and, 174, 196; whiteness principles and, 158–66

Black Time: Fiction of Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, 38–39, 75

Black Wealth/White Wealth (Oliver & Shapiro), 155–56

Black womanhood: black girl ordinary and, 249n59; CP Time and, 51–56; fast life and, 139–40; gender-based violence against, 239n9; gendered division of labor and, 239n8; misogynoir and, 74–79; police encounters with, 81–88; present orientation and, 170–71; reproductive labor and time theft for, 103–6; sex trafficking and, 138–39

Black youth: cool pose of, 216n45; CP Time and, 40–41; culture of, 11; demographics, 212; developmental deadlines for, 211; expendability of, 5–7; in fast life, 52–54, 137–45; future for, 27–28, 167–68, 176–84, 194–98, 201–6; innocence perceptions about, 214n17; job search and hiring process for, 119–24; life expectancy perceptions of, 149–54, 192–93, 211–12; “maybe environment” for, 25; perceptions of race, racialization, and racism by, 71–74, 210–11; perceptions of time by, 1–4, 208–10; police and, 80–88; prescience in present orientation of, 184–88, 204–6; present orientation of, 168–76; racialization and sexualization of, 71–74; relational racial identity and, 96–99; school experiences of, 43, 113–19; strategies for dealing with whiteness among, 157–66; temporalization in urban space of, 18–23, 214n16; time concepts of, 1–4, 29–37, 57–58; time theft vs. time use for, 79–88; transgressive temporalities of, 26–27, 35–37; in Twin Cities, 93–94; urban sociology and, 4–5

Blume Oeur, Freeden, 174, 178, 248n34

Bonilla, Yarimar, 13

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 16, 23–24, 68–69, 148

Bosniak, Linda, 237n16

Bourdieu, Pierre, 44–49, 60–61, 148, 179

Brand, Dionne, 147, 248n31

Browne, Simone, 12, 70

Bruce, La Marr Jurelle, 74, 179–80, 187, 192–93, 203, 236n1, 244n46

Burton, Linda, 143

Butler, Octavia, 251n91

Byrd, Jodi, 252n3

Cacho, Lisa, 53, 142

Canada, Black population in, 92–93

“Can You Use That Word in a Sentence?” contest, 9

capitalism: bourgeois time and, 152–53; CP Time and, 52–54; fashion and, 163–64; racial violence and, 105–6; temporal capital and, 153–54; time theft and, 68, 99; time use and, 80–88

carceral space, time and, 42–49, 99

“Carnival Tabanca” (Bunji Garlin), 125

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 105

Chakravartty, Paul, 106

Chauvin, Derek, 243n27

Cheryl Johnson McCaskill Communications, 164

Chicago School, 90

childhood: Black youth experience of, 101–3, 170, 203; time theft and, 103–6

chronos, Greek concept of, 30, 54, 220n9

citizenship, immigration and, 237n16

Clark, Jamar, 85

class stratification: delayed gratification and, 145, 241nn28–29; education and, 116–19; risk/resiliency research and, 171–73

Clifton, Lucille, 191

Clinton, Hillary, 167

clocking, racism and, 152–54

code switching, job searching and, 138, 239n3

Coleman, Chris, 105

Collins, Patricia Hill, 74–75

colonialism: critiques of research on, 250n78; Indigeneity and, 95–96; Midwest and, 89–90, 94–99; racialization and, 19; settler narratives of, 243n24; time in relation to, 37, 49, 99; violence of, 67. See also settler time

Common (musician), 102

consistency, white framing of, 56

consumption, Black experience with, 69–74, 164–66, 245n57

corporeality, space and time and, 101

Coser, Lewis, 32–33

Coser, Rose, 32–33

Council of Minnesotans of African Heritage, 94

counter-frames of whiteness, 149, 161–64

COVID-19 pandemic, 201–6

CP Time (Colored People’s Time): defined, 23–24, 38; as hidden transcript, 54–56; as praxis, 49–54; productivity and subversiveness of, 57–58; racialization and, 37–41, 223n53; as resistance, 38, 40–49, 202; transnational variations on, 223n55

Crawford, Randy, 129–30

creativity, CP Time and, 40–41

crime and criminalization: anti-Blackness and structural racism and, 243n27; of Blackness, 42–43, 183–84, 189–93, 224n67; curfews and, 81–82; deportation and, 134–36, 238n18; epidermalization and, 70; fast life and, 142–45; of immigration, 131, 238nn18–19; language of, 214n16; police violence and, 81–88; present orientation and, 171–72; time and, 53–54, 60–61; of time use, 81–88; urbanized space and, 172–73; zero-tolerance policies and, 118–19

crip time, 223n55

critical race theory: racism in, 225n86; whiteness and, 22, 218n76

cubist ethnography, 10

cultural lag, 234n50

culture: a’ightness, Black excellence vs., 181–82; appropriation and misappropriation of, 162; Black culture, suppression in school of, 115–16; Black youths inversion of white culture, 159–66; CP Time and, 38–41, 43–49; Indigeneity and, 96–99; neighborhood effects and, 171; racialization and, 19–20; structure and, 101–6; time and, 32–33; in urban sociology, 173–76

cumulative dis/advantage hypothesis, 155–56, 191

curfews, time theft and, 81–82

curricular coevalness, Black students and, 113–19

dark sousveillance, 12

debt: education debt, 118–19; taken time and, 68–74

delayed gratification, 145, 241n28

Denton, Nancy, 106

deportation time, 26, 126–27, 131–36; music and, 193–94

depressive time, Bruce’s concept of, 179–80

developmental deadlines: Black youth perceptions of, 211; fast life and, 141–45; risk/resiliency research and, 171; disorientation, COVID-19 pandemic and, 201–6

Donald, Stephanie, 85

double consciousness, Du Bois’s concept of, 63–66, 73, 83–84, 111–13, 180–82

The Dragon Can’t Dance (Lovelace), 194

drug trafficking: fast life and, 137–45, 240n13; time and, 51–54

Du Bois, W. E. B., 49, 63, 67, 134, 138, 146–47, 158, 174–75, 180–82, 225n86, 225n88

Duck, Waverly, 250n73

Durkheim, Émile, 30–31

economics: Black Midwest and, 91–94; temporal dispossession and, 155–56

Edelman, Lee, 5–6, 178, 214n21

education: class stratification and, 116–19; fast life as alternative to, 139–45; futurity orientation in, 174; myth of meritocracy and, 178; racial differences in experience of, 94, 110–13, 154–56; suppression of Blackness in, 113–19; time construction and, 152–54. See also school

empathy, Hartman on, 238n25

employment: Black youth experience of, 154–56; fast life as alternative to, 137–45; job search process and, 119–24; racial patterns of, 93–94, 111–13

enclosures: in education, 117–19; fast life as escape from, 143–45; racialized space as, 127–36

end of time, 199–200

enjoyment, property of, 147

Enlightenment, time and, 32, 74

epidermalization, 70–72

epiphenomenal time, 180

Ermath, Elizabeth Deeds, 74–75

Estes, Nick, 243n24

ethnographic research: cubist ethnography, 10; Midwest and, 90–94; mixed methods in, 8–14; present orientation in, 168–76, 196–98, 246n11

ethnonoir research, 231n6

Fabian, Johannes, 7, 60, 162, 168, 220n6, 246n11

families: Black youth perceptions of, 101–3; deportation time and, 131–36; incarceration impact on, 43; migrant experience of, 126–36; present orientation and, 170–71; reproductive labor and time theft for, 103–6

family regulation system, 51, 225n93

Fanon, Frantz, 3, 70–73, 138

fashion trends, Black youth knowledge of, 159–66

fast life: Black youth experience in, 52–54, 137–45; defined, 137

“Fast Life” (Kool G. Rap and Nas), 143–44

Feagin, Joe, 149, 161

feminism: misogynoir and, 74–79; time and, 51–54

Ferguson, Anne Arnett, 118–19

Ferguson, Roderick, 174

Ferreira da Silva, Denise, 22, 34, 68, 78, 106, 175, 220n3, 239n3, 248n42, 250n78

Fields, Barbara, 29

The Fire Next Time (Baldwin), 190–91

Firsts (Morales art piece), 87–88

Fleming, Crystal, 34–35

Floyd, George, 90, 203, 243n27

Franklin, Benjamin, 52

Freeman, Elizabeth, 32, 153

fugitivity: criminalization of Blackness and, 86; runaways and legacy of, 7–8, 222n46; time and, 38–39, 202–3, 244n46

fungibility of Blackness, 172–73, 243n29, 247n29

funk: mixed methods research on, 8–14; time in context of, 2–4

Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (Stallings), 3

Furstenberg, Frank, 171

future: in Black music, 188–93; Black youth views of, 27–28, 167–68, 176–84, 194–98, 201–6; deported time and, 194; prescience of Black youth about, 184–87; whiteness and perceptions of, 32–33, 159, 163–66, 243n24

Garlin, Bunji, 125

gender: CP Time and, 54–56; fluency in, 213n7; misogynoir and, 74–79; time construction and, 151–54; violence and, 239n9

gentrification, racialization and, 105–6

geopolitics of economy, Mignolo on, 33–34

G. I. Jane (film), 77

Gilroy, Paul, 33–34, 37, 144

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, 103–4

Glissant, Édouard, 202

globalization, migration and, 98–99, 233n37, 233n39, 244n41

Goffman, Alice, 172–73, 247n29

Goffman Erving, 56

Gowan, Teresa, 231n6

Great Migration, 89

Guadeloupean labor movements, 13–14

Habeus Viscus (Weheliye), 195–96

hair care and hair styles: culture and structure and, 101–6; racialized and gendered standards of, 54–56, 76–79; resistance to whiteness and, 157–66

Halberstam, J. Jack, 53, 152–53

Hanchard, Michael, 35, 37, 61

Hannerz, Ulf, 234n50

Harding, David, 171–73

Hardt, Michael, 134

Harney, Stefano, 3, 253n6

Harris, Cheryl, 147–48

Harris, Kamala, 36–37

Hartman, Saidiya: on afterlife of slavery, 115, 144, 189–90, 203, 221n30; on Black womanhood, 174–75; on crime and survival, 134, 238n25; on economic inequality, 91; on fungibility of Blackness, 172–73, 243n29, 247n29; on life course and state terror, 140; on pain and identification, 184; on representation and violence, 220n3; on social time racialization, 84; on space and time, 126; on urbanized space, 18–23, 213n2; on whiteness and slavery, 147

Harvey, David, 60, 152–53

Hassard, John, 30–31

hauntings, Blackness and, 19, 217n57

Hayward, Clarissa, 34

Hegel, G. F. W., 252n119

heteronormative logics, queer and trans identity and, 214n21

hidden transcript, CP Time as, 54–56

higher education, racial differences in, 112–13

hiring process, time racialization and, 119–24

history, Black youth perceptions of, 188–93

Hmong American community, in Twin Cities, 98–99

Hong, Grace, 19

Hudgins v. Wright, 95–96

humor, CP Time and, 41, 46–49

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA), 238n19

illegitimacy, Western, white constructions of, 75–79

immigration: deported time and, 131–36; globalization and, 98–99, 233n37, 233n39, 244n41; legislation involving, 238n19; time and space and, 126–36

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 131

Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), 131

Indigeneity and Indigenous groups: Blackness and, 8, 24–25, 89–90, 94–99; colonialism and, 252n3; in Midwest, 94–99; oppression of progress and, 37; relational racial identity and, 96–99; Spirit time of, 223n55; time and, 45–46, 243n24; in Twin Cities, 90–94. See also Native American youth

Industrial Revolution, temporality and, 39

Infante, Chad Benito, 173

infrapolitics: CP Time and, 40–41; racialized violence and, 72

insurgent time, 23–24, 35–37, 50–54, 57–58

integrity, racialized questioning of, 63

intergenerational wealth transmission, 111–13, 165

interlude, deported time and, 236n1

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 98

intersectionality, racialization and temporalization of Black youths and, 18–23

In the Heat of the Night (film), 42

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Sharpe), 185–88

Iton, Richard, 93, 217n64

Jackson, George L., 253n21

James, Joy, 75, 150, 200, 253n5

James, Rick, 199

Jim Crow of the North (PBS documentary), 108

Job Corps, 224n81

Kabat-Zinn, John, 196

kairós, Greek concept of, 30, 54

Kant, Immanuel, 78

Keeling, Kara, 152, 176, 191, 202–3

Kelley, Robin D. G., 40–41, 164, 166, 174, 202–3

killing time, racial representations of, 191–92

Kim, Jina B., 186–87

King, Deborah, 75–76

King, Mike, 22

King, Tiffany Lethabo, 202

knowledge, Black contributions to, 9

Kotlowitz, Alex, 170, 247n14

Kristeva, Julia, 74

labor: of anti-Blackness, 62–63; Black youth temporality and, 25, 154–56; CP Time and, 50–54; education for, 116–19; fast life as alternative to, 137–45; gendered division of, 239n8; immigrant patterns of, 126–27, 236n7; processing time and, 63–68, 71–74; racial differences in, 94, 111–13; racialized hiring processes and, 119–24; time racialization and, 39–41, 165–66; whiteness and, 146–47

Ladson-Billings, Gloria, 118–19

lateness: Black youth’s resistance to, 35–37, 50–54, 57–58; CP Time and, 43–49; rejection of protocols for, 2–5; transnational variations on, 223n55

Laymon, Kiese, 9

Learning to Labor (Willis), 116–17

Lesko, Nancy, 27–28, 118–19, 123–24

Lethabo, Tiffany, 94

Lewis, Oscar, 246n11

liberalism, futurity and, 177–78

Liebow, Elliot, 176

life expectancy (life course): Black youth perceptions of, 111–12, 192; fast life and, 139–45; prescience of Black youth about, 185–88; present orientation and, 170–76; white opportunity structures and, 149–54

limbo, CP Time and, 47–48

liming, 129, 237n12

Lindner, Cristoph, 85

linear temporality: Black youth awareness of, 112–13; whiteness and, 34

Lipsitz, George, 15, 105, 107, 146, 153–54, 157, 162, 188, 219n1

loitering, racialization of, 85

Long Division (Laymon), 9

loss, time and, 238n24

Lovelace, Earl, 194

lysis (lyse), Fanon’s concept of, 3

madtime, Bruce’s concept of, 187

Majors, Richard, 216n45

Mama (television program), 162

Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success (Furstenberg), 171

Mann, Simone, 12

marginalization, time theft and, 152–54

Martin, Trayvon, 85–86

Martinot, Steve, 19–20, 73, 143, 218n69, 241n4

Marx, Karl, 80

Massey, Douglass, 106

mass incarceration: CP Time linked to, 42–49; drug offenses and, 238n29; racialization and, 224n68; whiteness and, 247n30. See also carceral space, time and

“Matthew Effect,” 155–56

“maybe environment”: Black youth and, 25; fast life and, 139–45; in Minnesota, 99–106; origins of, 89–109; white spatial-temporal imaginaries and, 106–9

Mbiti, John, 33, 158–59, 177

McCaskill, Carl, 164

McCleskey v. Kemp, 150

McClintock, Anne, 104

McKittrick, Katherine, 10, 72, 194–95, 232n15

Medoff, Peter, 127–28

memory, misappropriation of, 162

mental health, prescience about Black life course and, 186–87

meritocracy, myth of, 178

Merton, Robert, 31, 141, 155

Midwest: Blackness and Indigeneity in, 94–99; culture and sociology in, 89–94; “maybe environment” in, 99–106

Mignolo, Walter, 33–34

migrant justice collectives, 238n18

Miles, Tiya, 97

Miller, Jody, 239n9

Mills, Charles, 61, 67–68, 99, 107, 148, 219n1

mindfulness, 196

Minnesota: “maybe environment” in, 99–106. See also Twin Cities

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, 186–87

Minnesota Compass, 105

Minnesota Homeless Study, 99

Minnesota Nice, 93–94

“The Miracle of Minneapolis” (Thompson), 24, 91–94, 108–9

misogynoir, 177–78; temporal dispossession and, 74–79

mixed methods research, 8–14

mnemonic community: Black youth and, 188–93; historical events and, 33–34

modernity: Afro-modernity and, 37–38; Blackness linked to, 159; time and, 32, 221n22; whiteness linked to, 39, 160–61

money and time: Black womanhood and, 51–56; Black youth consumption and, 163–64, 245n57; Black youth labor and employment and, 147–48; fast life and, 138–45; processing time for Blackness and, 69–74; reproductive labor and, 153–54; space racialization and, 103–6; wealth inequality and, 110–13

Morales, Ricardo Levins, 87–88

Morrison, Toni, 187–88

Moten, Fred, 3, 38, 232n17, 253n6

Movement for Family Power, 51, 225n93

Moynihan Report, 170

multiple consciousness of Black women, 75–76

Muñoz, José Esteban, 178, 183, 192

Museum of Science (Boston), 130

music: Afrofuturism and, 188–93; Blackness and, 115, 236n1; Black youth involvement in, 11, 41, 159–60, 193–94; space and, 193–94

Native American youth, 8; in Minnesota, 95–99; school experiences of, 113–19. See also Indigeneity and Indigenous groups

Native studies, slavery and, 94

Navarro, Jenell, 94, 202

negativity, racialization and, 20

Negri, Antonio, 134

New York Times, 164

Ngo, Helen, 21, 65, 95, 148–49

Nickrand, Jessica, 24, 91–92

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Edelman), 5–6

No One Is Illegal (NOII) movements, 238n18

North Minneapolis (Minneapolis), 104–6

Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin), 159

nowness, power of, 194–98

Nyong’o, Tavia, 72

Obeidallah, Dawn, 143

objectivity, violence and, 126

Ogburn, William Fielding, 234n50

Ogle, Vanessa, 30

Oliver, Melvin, 155–56

Omi, Michael, 21

“On the Faith of the Fathers” (Du Bois), 63

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Goffman), 172–73

opportunity: fast life and, 144–45; race and, 119–24; rejection of Black youth from, 164; structures of, 207–8; white time and structures of, 149–54

Otherness, temporality of, 39–40, 99–100

otherwise worlds, Black youth and, 202

overstanding, 240n20

Painter, Nell Irvin, 21

pan-toting tactics, workplace resistance and, 40–41

pastness, tabanca time and, 125–26

pathology, in urban sociology, 173–76

Patrick, Deval, 167

penal-legal system, racialization of time and, 19, 217n63

Perry, Pamela, 190

persuasion, CP Time and, 44–45

phenomenology: of Blackness, 89–94; of whiteness, 66–67, 89

The Philadelphia Negro (Hartman), 174–75

Phillips, Susan, 45–46

Physics of Blackness, 49

Poitier, Sidney, 42

police and policing: Black youth and, 80–88, 177–78, 204; deportation time and, 135–36; prescience of Black youth about, 186–87; racialization and, 128–29, 237n9; slavery compared with, 189; in Twin Cities, 90–94; in urbanized space, 241n30. See also state terror

politics, time and, 167–68

positivist sociology, job search and hiring process and, 122–24

possession, whiteness and, 146

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (Lipsitz), 146

postremoval time, families and children and, 131–36, 238n20

poverty: de-pathologization of, 174–76; risk/resiliency research and, 171; in Twin Cities, 91–94

power: time and, 38–41, 44–49, 60–61, 168–69, 223n55; whiteness and, 146–49

praxis: CP Time as, 49–54; humanness as, 195–96

presence/attendance, CP Time and indeterminacy of, 44–45

present orientation: of Black youth, 168–76, 181–84; in ethnographic research, 168–76, 196–98, 246n11; futurity and, 176–84; power of nowness and, 194–98; prescience in, 184–88, 204–6

Prince (Rogers Nelson), 199

prison-industrial complex: CP Time linked to, 42–49; deportation time and, 134–36; transgressive temporalities and, 129–30, 237n11

private property, time as, 80

processing time: job search and hiring process and, 123–24; labor and, 63–68; oppression and, 189; racialization and, 61; surveillance and criminalization of Blackness and, 69–74; as time theft, 80–88

progress: linear time linked to, 74; oppression of, 37; whiteness linked to, 32–33

punctuality: Black youth’s resistance to, 35–37, 50–54, 57–58; COVID-19 disorientation and, 201–6; CP Time and, 43–49; rejection of protocols for, 2–5

Quashie, Kevin, 181–82

queer identity: Black youth and, 5–6, 73–74; funk and, 3–4; futurity and, 182–83, 192; heteronormative logics and, 214n21; misogynoir and, 74–79; runaway status and, 8; slowness and, 52–54; time and, 152–54, 243n30

race, racialization, and racism: beauty standards and, 54–56; Black youth perceptions of, 156–58; ethnography and role of, 11–14; hiring process and, 119–24; loss of time and, 62–68; in Midwest, 90–91; modernization and, 33–34; opportunity and, 119–24; prison-industrial complex and, 129–30, 237n11; relational racial identity and, 96–99; scholarship on, 34–37; in school, 113–19; space and, 99, 101–6; suppression of curriculum on, 115–19; temporalization of youths in urbanized space and, 18–23; time and, 5–7, 23–24, 32, 34–35, 37–41, 210–11; time use vs. time theft and, 60–61, 79–88, 165–66; in Twin Cities, 91–94. See also anti-Blackness

racial time, 61: Fleming’s concept of, 34–35; social time as, 37–38

Rawick, George, 39

reflexion, definition of, 220n6

refugee temporality, 223n55, 233n37

relational racial identity: formation of, 96–99, 233n36; white spatial-temporal imaginaries and, 107–9

representation, violence of, 220n3

reproductive futurism, queer theory and, 5–6, 214n21

reproductive labor: misogynoir and, 74–79; time theft and, 103–4, 153–54

resistance: by Black womanhood, 55–56; CP Time as, 38, 40–49; deportation time and, 134–36; fashion as tool for, 163; to whiteness, 149, 162–66

Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France (Fleming), 34–35

reverse racism: affirmative action as, 148; white claims of, 156–58

Rich, Adrienne, 29–30, 220n4

Richards, Beah, 42

ridicule, inverting whiteness with, 158–66

Rifkin, Mark, 25

Rios, Jodi, 81–82, 235n68, 241n30

Robinson, Cedric, 7

Rock, Chris, 77

Rodríguez, Dylan, 42, 178, 224n67

Roediger, David, 147

“Rondo Days” festival, 105

Rondo neighborhood (St. Paul), 104–6

Roof, Dylan, 251n94

Rosaldo, Renato, 11, 21, 34, 39, 46, 126

Roxbury (Boston), 127–28, 171–72

Run-a-Way (multiservice center) (pseudonym): emergency shelter and independent programs at, 16–18; organization and activities of, 14–18; research at, 7–8

runaways: Black youth as, 201–6; fugitives vs., 7–8

Sampson, Robert J., 171–72

Sanders, Bernie, 167

Scenes of Subjection (Hartman), 184

school: Black youth experience of, 154–56; CP Time and, 50–54; for Native American youth, 97–99; spatio-temporal locations of, 130; teaching biases and, 63–64; time racialization in, 43, 113–19; unlearning in, 200

Secondary Security Screening Selection, 134

self-definition/self-determination, CP Time and, 50–54

Settersten, Richard, 141–42

settler time, 25, 94–99

Sexton, Jared, 42–43, 94–95, 226n1

sex trafficking, Black womanhood and, 138–39

Shakur, Assata, 116–17

Shange, Savannah, 249n59

Shapiro, Thomas, 155–56

Sharma, Nandita, 20, 98

Sharpe, Christina, 185–88

Shaw, J. Brendan, 166

shopping, Black experience with, 69–74

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 232n27

Simone, Nina, 6

Sirianni, Carmen, 179

Sklar, Holly, 127–28

slavery: afterlife of, 67, 115, 144, 189, 221n30; Black youth perceptions of, 188–93; in Canada, 92–93; fashion as link to, 163; Indigenous groups and, 95–96; in Native studies, 94; in school curriculum, 115–19; time racialization and, 37–39, 49, 223n53; whiteness and, 147

slowness, Black practice of, 52–54

Smith, Andrea, 94–96, 161–62, 202

Smith, Jada Pinkett, 77

Smith, Mark, 39

smudging (Native tradition), 97

social capital, Blackness and, 99–100

social death, 142

Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Cacho), 53

social institutions, racialization and, 20, 225n91

social time: CP Time as, 50–54; inclusion and exclusion and, 57–58; racialization of, 23, 37–38, 83–84; stigmatization of Black sociality, 174–76; theories of, 30–37, 220n7

sociogenesis/sociogenic principle, 73

sociology: alternative methods in, 11–14; of education, 116–19; Midwest in, 90–94; risk/resiliency research in, 171; skepticism concerning, 9–11, 216n37; space and time in, 99–101; time and, 29–37, 57–58, 175–76, 202–6

Sojoyner, Damien, 51, 117, 192

Somali migrants, in Twin Cities, 98–99

Sorokin, Pitirim, 31

sousveillance, 12

Southeast Asians, in Twin Cities, 98–99, 233n37

sovereignty, Blackness and, 94–95

space: in Black music, 188–93; Black womanhood and, 55–56; carceral space, 42–49, 99; CP Time and, 51–54; criminalization and, 81–82, 235n68; deportation time and, 131–36; music and, 193–94; racialization of, 99, 101–6; time and, 4–5, 24–26, 95–99, 129–30; urbanized space, 18–23, 213n2, 221n29; whiteness and, 89–90, 106–9, 148–49, 160–66

Spillers, Hortense J., 75–77, 150

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 43

Stallings, L. H., 2, 4

state terror: life course and, 139–40; prescience of Black youth about, 186–87, 197–98, 204–6. See also police and policing

stereotypes: of race and time, 43; of whiteness, 160–61

stereotypes of whiteness, 160

Streets of Hope: The Rise and Fall of an Urban Neighborhood (Medoff & Sklar), 127–28

strikethrough, 215n26

suburbanized space, race and, 241n30

Sullivan, Shannon, 148–49, 158

surveillance: of Black youth, processing time and, 69–74; racialization of, 234n49

survival: deportation time and, 134–36; fast life and, 142–45

Swartz, Jeffrey, 245n57

Swistun, Débora Alejandra, 10

tabanca time, 25–26, 125–36

Tadiar, Neferti X. M., 80

taken time, debt and, 68–74

Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Liebow), 176

Tang, Eric, 223n55, 233n37

teaching biases, Black students, 63–64

technology, time racialization and, 39

teefing time (theft of time), 59–61

“Tell Me” (Groove Theory), 193

temporal capital, 153–54

temporal coordination, Zerubavel’s concept of, 31–32

temporal dispossession: job search and hiring process and, 120–24; misogynoir, 74–79; wealth inequality and, 155–56

temporality (time): Black youth perceptions of, 1–4, 150–54, 208–10; Black youth transgressions of, 26–27; COVID-19 disorientation and, 201–6; deportation time, 131–36; end of time, 199–200; future and, 27–28; immigrant perceptions of, 129; marginalization of, 30; in music, 188–94; owning vs, borrowing of, 1–4, 80–88; queer identity and, 52–54; race and opportunity and, 119–24; racialization and, 5–7, 19–23, 34–35; role of, 23; school bell as indicator of, 113–19; settler time, 97–98; sociology of, 29–37; space and, 4–5, 24–26, 99, 129–30; tabanca time, 25–26, 125–36; Trinidadian perceptions of, 126–30, 237n13; violence and use of, 165–66; white manipulation of, 37–41, 179–80, 219n1; whiteness and, 26–27, 33, 37–41, 43–49, 57–58, 80, 106–9, 146–49, 219n1; of youths in urbanized space and, 18–23

temporalization, Black culture and, 162–63

tempus nullius, 95

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 126

terra nullius, 95

There Are No Children Here (Kotlowitz), 170

Thích Nhất Hạnh, 196

Thompson, Derek, 24, 91–94, 108–9

Thompson, E. P., 104

Timberland, 164–65, 245n57

Time and the Other (Fabian), 99–100

Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Freeman), 32

time management, 59–60

time mining, 69–74

time theft: education as, 116–19; racism and, 62–68; space racialization and, 103–6; time use vs., 79–88. See also teefing time (theft of time)

“To Be Young, Gifted and Black” (Nina Simone), 6

Tolle, Eckhart, 196

tone policing, 82

transformativity, CP Time, 50–54

transgender identity: funk and, 3–4; heteronormative logics and, 214n21; runaway status and, 8–9, 216n47; time and, 153–54, 243n30

transgressive temporalities, 23–28; CP Time as, 41–49; curfew violations and, 81–82; deportation time and, 134–36; fast life and, 137–45; incarceration and, 129–30; lateness and, 57–58; present orientation and, 169–76

transience, CP Time and, 47–48

trapping (drug trafficking), 137–45

Treaty of Mendota, 95

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, 95

Trentham, Henry James, 39

truancy, fugitivity and, 36–37

Trump, Donald, 22, 167, 185

Twain, Mark, 191

Twin Cities: Black youth in, 24–25; demographics of, 93–94; economic inequality in, 24, 91–94; “maybe environment” in, 99–106, 108–9; migrant groups in, 98–99; racist real estate policies in, 108–9; Rondo and North Minneapolis neighborhoods in, 104–6; whiteness in, 89–94. See also North Minneapolis (Minneapolis); Rondo neighborhood (St. Paul)

“U, Black Maybe” (Common), 102

“Uncle Tom Was an Indian: Tracing the Red in Black Slavery” (Miles), 97

underclass, 106

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Harney & Moten), 3

unlearning, abolition and, 200

unquantifiable time, 66

unsettleable (unpayable) debt, 68–74, 163–64

urbanized space: ambiguity of, 102–6; Blackness and, 100–106, 234n50; Black youth racialization and, 18–23, 213n2; deportation time and, 131–36; fast life in, 143–45, 241n30; gentrification and, 127–28; inert city concept of, 85; interaction orders in, 250n73; job search and hiring process in, 120–24; present orientation in, 169–76, 183; Rondo and North Minneapolis neighborhoods, 104–6; temporalization of, 18–23, 102–6, 213n2; white spatial-temporal imaginaries and, 106–9

vagrancy laws, criminalization of Blackness and, 86

violence: Back Midwest and, 90–94; Black womanhood and, 239n9; Black youth perceptions of, 189–93; fast life and structure of, 142–45; police violence, 80–88, 250n82; processing time and, 61, 189; profitability of, 165–66; racism and, 63–68, 216n42; social organization of, 171–73; time and, 33–34, 38–39, 51–54, 68–74, 165–66; of urban renewal, 105–6

Wacquant, Loïc, 183

wages, public and psychological wage of whiteness, 146–48

waiting, CP Time and, 44–46

Walcott, Ronald, 38–39, 46

Walia, Harsha, 238n18

Warren, Calvin, 195, 215n26

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (Hartman), 84–88, 174–75

Waziyatawin, 95

wealth: Black youth perceptions of, 110–13; temporal dispossession and, 155–56

weed legalization, 238n29

Weheliye, Alexander, 4, 195–96, 225n88

white habitus, 16, 35, 41–45, 107–9, 148

White Men Can’t Jump (film), 160

whiteness: accrued time and, 152–54; aggrieved whiteness concept, 218n74; anti-Blackness and, 150–54, 161–62; Black youth perceptions of, 15–18, 156–66; CP Time as resistance to, 41–49; critical race theory and, 22, 218n76; history and, 190; Indigeneity and, 95–96; misogynoir and, 74–79; modernity linked to, 39; phenomenology of, 66–67, 89; progress linked to, 32; public and psychological wage of labor and, 146–47; racialization and, 21–22; space and, 89–90, 106–9; strategies for dealing with, 157–66; temporality of, 26–27, 29, 33, 37–41, 43–49, 57–58, 80, 106–9, 146–49, 219n1; in Twin Cities, 93–94; wackness of, 157–66

white time: Black youth and, 61; resistance to, 23; tabanca time and, 124–29

wigging tactics, workplace resistance and, 40–41

Wildcat, Daniel R., 223n55

Wilderson, Frank, 31–32, 82, 95, 162, 223n53, 232n27

Willis, Paul, 116–17

Wilson, August, 65

Wilson, William Julius, 99–100, 234n50

Winant, Howard, 21

Womack, Bobby, 106–7

Womack, Ytasha, 251n91

Woods, Clyde, 117

work. See labor

World Bank, 98

Wright, Michelle M., 9, 48–49, 93, 148–49, 159, 180, 191, 215n33, 219n78

Wright, Richard, 99

Wynter, Sylvia, 4, 21, 73, 226n106

Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! (Kelley), 174

Young, Alford, 175

zero-tolerance policies, race and, 118–19

Zerubavel, Eviatar, 31–32, 34, 189, 191, 221n22, 251n93

Zimmerman, George, 85–86

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