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Blackness and Value: Seeing Double

Blackness and Value: Seeing Double

Barrett, Lindon
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 117

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0521621038
ISBN13: 9780521621038
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 13 1998
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Blackness and Value investigates the principles by which value operates, and asks if it is useful to imagine that the concepts of racial blackness and whiteness in the United States operate in terms of these principles. Testing these concepts by exploring various theoretical approaches and their shortcomings, Lindon Barrett finds that the gulf between the street (where race is acknowledged as a powerful enigma) and the literary academy (where until recently it has not been) can be understood as a symptom of racial violence. While commonly approaches to race and value are examined historically or sociologically, this intriguing study provides a new critical approach that speaks to theorists of race as well as gender and queer studies.

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