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Blackness and value : seeing double /

"Blackness and Value investigates the principles by which "value" operates and asks whether it is useful to imagine that the concepts of racial blackness and whiteness in the United States operate in terms of these principles." "The book traces several interrelations between...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barrett, Lindon, 1961-2008
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 116.
Subjects:
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Violence and the unsightly: Figures of violence
  • Figuring others of value
  • (Further) figures of violence
  • Part II. Reasonings and reasonableness: De-marking limits
  • Part III. Phonic and scopic economies: Signs of others
  • Signs of the visible.