Kenan Van De Mieroop-Al Bahrani is an author based in Brussels. He is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University in the Netherlands and co-founder of the International Network for Theory of History.

This book adds an extra layer of temporal self-consciousness and sophistication to the arguments for reparations. It is clear and incisive in its account of the racialization of temporal power.

• 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 racismIII.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