Racialized temporalities and rhetorical violence

ABSTRACT Reflecting upon the words of Professors De Genova, Lozano, and Yam, this essay suggests that rhetorical scholars attend to the intersections between rhetorical violence and rhetorical temporalities. The varied projects that emerge in this forum together suggest that the racialized temporalities of violence rely upon temporalities of relentless and repetition. Together, relentlessness and repetition make race. They do so, within white supremacy and antiblackness, by demanding a particular racist recognition, a seeing and sensing of race premised in antiblackness.