{"product_id":"9781479810888","title":"Black Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eA view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age    Although 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?     Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life 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.    Ibrahim 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? Black Age 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185417912594,"sku":"9781479810888","price":166.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781479810888.jpg?v=1774735726","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781479810888","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}