| Blackness and Value: Seeing Double Contributor(s): Barrett, Lindon (Author), Gelpi, Albert (Editor), Posnock, Ross (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521621038 ISBN-13: 9780521621038 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 97052757 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 286 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |