Abstract Drawing from theories of race and time, this article examines how discourse policing the continuities of lynching’s past and present manifests temporally to construct the hegemony of white national time. This dominant temporal formation materializes in the law and public memory as an institutionalized common sense (of legal time and memorial time) to create “times of suffocation” for Black lives and which perpetuate end-of-lynching sentiments in contingent projects to maintain the racial status quo (Ore). We explore how countertemporal rhetorics of racialized violence manifest both in Black women’s responses to the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act and the Equal Justice Institute’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice to confront the suffocating hegemony of white national time, enabling a space and time to breathe and articulate different conceptions of justice, memory, and healing. By centering on the time of racialized violence, we argue that narrow definitions of racism, justice, and memories of racism’s “past” are impoverished, as they cannot account for the fundamental temporal relationship between lynchings past and present. We introduce a spatiotemporal politics of breathing as a framework through which “racial rhetorical criticism” (Flores, Towards) can better account for ongoing legacies of anti-Black violence and the possible futures enabled by recognizing nonlinear temporalities.

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窒息时期的私刑：走向呼吸的时空政治

摘要 本文从种族和时间理论出发，考察了对私刑过去和现在的连续性进行监管的话语如何在时间上显现以构建白人民族时间的霸权。这种占主导地位的时间形式在法律和公共记忆中具体化为一种制度化的常识（法定时间和纪念时间），为黑人生活创造“窒息时间”，并在维持种族歧视的临时项目中延续私刑结束情绪。现状（矿石）。我们探讨了种族化暴力的反时间修辞如何体现在黑人妇女对《埃米特直到未解决的民权犯罪法案》和平等正义研究所的国家和平与正义纪念馆的回应中，以对抗白人国家时间令人窒息的霸权，使空间和时间能够呼吸并阐明正义、记忆和治愈的不同概念。通过以种族暴力的时代为中心，我们认为种族主义、正义和对种族主义“过去”的记忆的狭隘定义是贫乏的，因为它们无法解释过去和现在私刑之间的基本时间关系。我们引入了呼吸的时空政治作为框架，通过该框架，“种族修辞批评”（弗洛雷斯，Towards）可以更好地解释反黑人暴力的持续遗产以及通过识别非线性时间实现的可能未来。因为它们无法解释过去和现在私刑之间的基本时间关系。我们引入了呼吸的时空政治作为框架，通过该框架，“种族修辞批评”（弗洛雷斯，Towards）可以更好地解释反黑人暴力的持续遗产以及通过识别非线性时间实现的可能未来。因为它们无法解释过去和现在私刑之间的基本时间关系。我们引入了呼吸的时空政治作为框架，通过该框架，“种族修辞批评”（弗洛雷斯，Towards）可以更好地解释反黑人暴力的持续遗产以及通过识别非线性时间实现的可能未来。