'What makes this volume valuable … is its connection of the theory of race to the theory of value as well as an analysis of a broad range of cultural manifestations in which the interplay of race and value is demonstrated … Lindon Barrett offers an extensive analysis of the phenomenon of value … His complex inquiries covering a variety of seemingly disparate fields offer a revealing read to senior students and scholars engaged in the field of African American studies.' American Studies

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Violence and the unsightly: 2. Figures of violence; 3. Figuring others of value; 4. (Further) figures of violence; Part II. Reasonings and Reasonableness: 5. De-marking limits; Part III. Phonic and Scopic Economies: 6. Signs of others; 7. Signs of the visible.

'What makes this volume valuable … is its connection of the theory of race to the theory of value as well as an analysis of a broad range of cultural manifestations in which the interplay of race and value is demonstrated … Lindon Barrett offers an extensive analysis of the phenomenon of value … His complex inquiries covering a variety of seemingly disparate fields offer a revealing read to senior students and scholars engaged in the field of African American studies.' American Studies

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Violence and the unsightly: 2. Figures of violence; 3. Figuring others of value; 4. (Further) figures of violence; Part II. Reasonings and Reasonableness: 5. De-marking limits; Part III. Phonic and Scopic Economies: 6. Signs of others; 7. Signs of the visible.

'What makes this volume valuable … is its connection of the theory of race to the theory of value as well as an analysis of a broad range of cultural manifestations in which the interplay of race and value is demonstrated … Lindon Barrett offers an extensive analysis of the phenomenon of value … His complex inquiries covering a variety of seemingly disparate fields offer a revealing read to senior students and scholars engaged in the field of African American studies.' American Studies

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Violence and the unsightly: 2. Figures of violence; 3. Figuring others of value; 4. (Further) figures of violence; Part II. Reasonings and Reasonableness: 5. De-marking limits; Part III. Phonic and Scopic Economies: 6. Signs of others; 7. Signs of the visible.