SOURCE: “(Further) Figures of Violence: The Street in the U.S. Landscape,” in Blackness And Value: Seeing Double, Lindon Barrett, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 94–128.
In this chapter from his full-length, deconstructive study of the concept of “value” as it applies to racial blackness, Barrett explores the symbolic value of Lutie's singing voice in The Street, as it responds to the values of the dominant white culture.
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