{"product_id":"black-age-oceanic-lifespans-and-the-time-of-black-life-9781479810895","title":"Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time and time again, excuses for police brutality and aggression--particularly against Black children-- concern the victim \"appearing\" as a threat. But why and how is the perceived \"appearance\" of Black persons so completely separated from common perceptions of age and time? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life\u003c\/i\u003e posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim examines how the history of transatlantic slavery and the constitution of modern Blackness has been reimagined through the embodiment of age. She argues that Black age--through nearly four centuries of subjugation-- has become contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement. As a result, rather than the number of years lived or a developmental life stage, Black age came to signify exchange value, historical under-development, timelessness, and other fantasies borne out of Black exclusion from the human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIbrahim asks: What constitutes a normative timeline of maturation for Black girls when \"all the women\"--all the canonically feminized adults--\"are white\"? How does a \"slave\" become a \"man\" when adulthood is foreclosed to Black subjects of any gender? \u003ci\u003eBlack Age\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the struggle between the abuses of Black exclusion from Western humanism and the reclamation of non-normative Black life, arguing that, if some of us are brave, it is because we dare to live lives considered incomprehensible within a schema of \"human time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Habiba Ibrahim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.9lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.83w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479810895","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43881526460553,"sku":"9781479810895","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_4a853667-9301-46ef-9b8c-0306ffaa1908.jpg?v=1744696693","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/black-age-oceanic-lifespans-and-the-time-of-black-life-9781479810895","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}