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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. The book traces several interrelations between value and race, such as literate/illiterate, the signing/singing voice, time/space, civic/criminal, and academy/street, and offers relevant and fresh readings of two novels by Ann Petry. While approaches to race and value are commonly 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.

American literature --- Literature and society --- African Americans --- Violence --- Race --- African Americans in literature. --- Social values --- Violence in literature. --- Racism --- Race in literature. --- Duality (Logic) --- Logic --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Physical anthropology --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History --- Intellectual life --- Social aspects --- Petry, Ann, --- Petry, Anne, --- Lane, Ann, --- Petri, Ann, --- Pachui, An, --- Petry, Ann Lane, --- Petry, Arnold, --- Political and social views. --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Race in literature --- 20th century --- African Americans in literature --- Violence in literature --- Race relations --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature