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Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity"</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lindon Barrett</span></font>
is Professor Comparative Literature and African American Studies and Director
of African American Studies at UC Irvine. Professor Barrett received his PhD in
English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 and is the author of<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Blackness and Value: Seeing Double</span></i>,
Cambridge UP, 1999. His has published numerous scholarly articles on a wide
range of literary, pedagogical, and theoretical topics, from subjectivity and
homoeroticism in Langston Hughes to teaching against authenticity in the slave
narrative to “Mercantilism, U.S. Federalism, and the Market Within
Reason: The ‘People’ and the Conceptual Impossibility of Racial
Blackness.” His current book project, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Racial
Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity</span></i>, is a theoretic
analysis of the place of Atlantic slavery in Western modernity.</p>
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