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Why students are in debt, part 6,493:
Rutgers Universityâs Brittney Cooper⌠an associate professor of Womenâs and Gender Studies and Africana Studies⌠says that the very concept of time itself is racially biased. In an interview with NPR last week, Cooper said that the way we âposition ourselves in relationship to time comes out of histories of European and Western thoughtâ; in other words, âwhite people own time.â
Rutgers professor: Even the concept of time is racist - The College Fix
According to our feminist educator, time âdoesnât feel linearâ for black people â all of them, presumably - because, she says, they live with âthe residue of past historical trauma.â You see, for âAfrican-American folks,â the present âfeels like the pastâ â specifically, ânarratives of race that are rooted in violence and a lack of freedomâ â i.e., slavery â âcan become our reality again at any moment.â
Rutgers Universityâs Brittney Cooper⌠an associate professor of Womenâs and Gender Studies and Africana Studies⌠says that the very concept of time itself is racially biased. In an interview with NPR last week, Cooper said that the way we âposition ourselves in relationship to time comes out of histories of European and Western thoughtâ; in other words, âwhite people own time.â
Rutgers professor: Even the concept of time is racist - The College Fix
According to our feminist educator, time âdoesnât feel linearâ for black people â all of them, presumably - because, she says, they live with âthe residue of past historical trauma.â You see, for âAfrican-American folks,â the present âfeels like the pastâ â specifically, ânarratives of race that are rooted in violence and a lack of freedomâ â i.e., slavery â âcan become our reality again at any moment.â