{"product_id":"funk-the-clock-rahsaan-mahadeo-9781501774218","title":"Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rahsaan Mahadeo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501774212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501774218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Rahsaan Mahadeo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761173557503,"sku":"9781501774218","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_794255d9-d134-45ee-a85a-f5b3cc25b9b7.jpg?v=1706680582","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/funk-the-clock-rahsaan-mahadeo-9781501774218","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}