1 Temporal power I.A politics of time II.From a politics to a poetics of time III.Reparations talk: a debate across boarders IV.A longer view of the history of reparations 2 The historical present as an ideological category I.The historical present II.An ideological category III.The hermeneutics of racism 3 Inheriting debt, sin and the curse of Ham I.

Intergenerational justice II."Ancestral fault" III.The Curse of Ham, Original Sin and its critics IV.Debt and Money V.National responsibility VI.The persistence of sin 4 Value in time and time as value I.The time value of money II.The price of reparations, the profitability of slavery and the Williams thesis III.

The consummate automatic fetish: fictitious capital, derivatives and time IV.Accounting for value: slavery, money, value and time in Marx V.Dead labour and the layers of historical development VI.The homogenization of historical time: money's functions as an instrument of temporality 5 Badges and incidents of slavery I.Retrospective politics? II.The Structure of racism III.Epidermialization: Stuart Hall and the semiotics of "race" IV.Transforming Traditions: dismantling ethnoracial domination 6 A new temporality? I.

The reproduction of the relations of production and ethnoracial domination Index.