“In the U.S. polity and cultural imagination racial blackness is most often far from being taken as a term of value. To make such a proposal is most often to leave oneself open to being perceived as having impaired, unreliable, or faulty judgment. The aim of this project, however, is precisely to see double in these ways. In considering value, this study attempts to formulate answers to three questions: In what ways does an interrogation of value as an abstract principle bear productively on the anatomization of the violence and oppressive force of racialization? In what specific ways can a critical discourse on value reveal peculiarities of race? In short, does value redact race, and vice versa?”
- Lindon Barrett, Blackness and Value: Seeing Double
