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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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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fortunate chronology, discrete literary text, signing voice, obdurate materiality, racial blackness, cultural expressivity, corporate industrialism, blacks into the state, discrete text, racial whiteness, literary critical discourse, precise repetition, literary academy, positive structure, black female bodies, purloined letter, jazz culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New Criticism, New Critical, United States, Cat Jimmie, The Narrows, Billie Holiday, Frederick Douglass, New Critics, Mary Douglas, Post-Master General, New York, Lutie Johnson, Mamie Powther, Southern Agrarians, Thomas Jefferson, Boots Collins, Civil War, Herrnstein Smith, Jonathon Chandler, Lady Sings the Blues, Mark Johnson, Monmouth Chronicle, North American, Barbara Christian New!
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Within the first few pages of her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, Billie Holiday (with William Dufty) recounts an entrepreneurial enterprise she undertakes at the age of sixteen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fortunate chronology, discrete literary text, signing voice, obdurate materiality, racial blackness, cultural expressivity, corporate industrialism, blacks into the state, discrete text, racial whiteness, literary critical discourse, precise repetition, literary academy, positive structure, black female bodies, purloined letter, jazz culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New Criticism, New Critical, United States, Cat Jimmie, The Narrows, Billie Holiday, Frederick Douglass, New Critics, Mary Douglas, Post-Master General, New York, Lutie Johnson, Mamie Powther, Southern Agrarians, Thomas Jefferson, Boots Collins, Civil War, Herrnstein Smith, Jonathon Chandler, Lady Sings the Blues, Mark Johnson, Monmouth Chronicle, North American, Barbara Christian New!
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- Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida on 6 pages
- Notes on the State of Virginia (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Jefferson on 6 pages
- Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Routledge Classics) by Mary Douglas on 5 pages
- Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida on 4 pages
- The Politics and Poetics of Transgression by Peter Stallybrass on page 16, page 21, and Back Matter
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- Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets) by Hazel A. Ervin on page 94, and page 95
- Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray by Darlene O'Dell in Back Matter
- Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (New Americanists) by Sharon Patricia Holland in Back Matter
- Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Gregg D. Crane in Front Matter
- Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Peter Stoneley in Front Matter
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