Blackness and Value: Seeing Double

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.

Author: Lindon Barrett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/30/2009
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780521109956
ISBN10: 0521109957
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | General
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory

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