Rahsaan Mahadeo

Rahsaan Mahadeo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Rahsaan’s research focuses broadly on race, Caribbeanity, the human, time, and the ruling episteme. In his first book, Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time while Young, Perceptive, and Black (Cornell University Press), Rahsaan explored how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how racialization and racism condition black youth’s perspectives on time. Rahsaan's current work takes up the question of what remains in the wake of deportation by focusing on the temporal perspectives of deportees and their families. Rahsaan is specifically interested in the temporal (dis)continuity of deportation and relationships post-removal, as well as the strategies families use to make up not only for lost time, but stolen time.