Blackness and Value: Seeing Double

by Lindon Barrett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521621038
• ISBN13: 9780521621038
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"