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Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "In the Dark"

Part One Violence and the Unsightly

1 Figures of Violence: Valuation, Authorization, Expenditures of the African American, and Other Ways of Telling

2 Figuring Others of Value: Singing Voices, Signing Voices, and African American Culture

3 (Further) Figures of Violence: The Street in the U. S. Landscape

Part Two Reasonings and Reasonablenesses

4 De-Marking Limits: Reading New Critical Bla(n)ckness

Part Three Phonic and Scopic Economies

5 Signs of Others: Circulations of a Purloined Letter Understood Otherwise

6 Signs of the Visible: (Re) Moving Pictures in The Narrows

Notes

Bibliography

Index