Race, Time and Educational Realities

February 2026 to March 2026

(fortnightly for three sessions)

This online reading group is an opportunity to engage with questions of race and temporality. We ask what race and/or racialisation have to do with our understandings of time, and why this is relevant to everyday educational realities.

We will ask questions about the apparent “commonsense” of time, how it structures our lives, and how different temporal imaginaries devalue or valorise human and planetary life.

Thursday 5^th February 12.30-1.30 pm (UK)

Allochronic Discourses and the Denial of Coevalness

📄 ARTICLE: Duncan, G.A. (2005). Critical race ethnography in education: narrative, inequality and the problem of epistemology, Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(1), 93-114.

Thursday 19^th February 12.30-1.30 pm (UK)

White Time – the “White Temporal Imaginary”

📄 ARTICLE: Mills. C.W. (2014). White time: The chronic injustice of Ideal Theory. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 11(1), 27-42.

Thursday 5^th March 12.30-1.30 pm (UK)

Black Time – A challenge to the Fixity of History

📄 ARTICLE: Goffe, T.L. (2022). Black Temporality, Speculation, Racial Capitalism. The South Atlantic Quarterly, 121(1) 109-130.

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:

Carter, A. (2021). When Silence Said Everything: Reconceptualizing Trauma through Critical Disability Studies. Lateral, 10(1).
Fabian, John (2014). Time and the Other: How anthropology makes its object. Columbia University Press (see especially Chapters 1 and 2).
Gallop, J. (2011). Sedgwick’s Twisted Temporalities, “or even just reading and writing”. In E. L. McCallum & M. Tuhkanen, Queer Times, Queer Becomings (pp. 47–74). State University of New York Press.
King (2024). On that demon time: Black time geographies of reimagining, recovering and resisting.Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 42(1), 36-54
Lim, Bliss Cua (2009). Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. Duke University Press.
Zerubavel, Eviatar (2003 ). Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. University of Chicago Press.

Feel free to bring your lunch to the sessions!

Please sign up below to join the sessions. Further details, including the online meeting link and links to the readings, will be sent out via the REE mailing list.