@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt2ttq9d.12,
 ISBN = {9781551110714},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttq9d.12},
 abstract = {Many black cultural critics are silent about the very thought of making explicit the principles by which they value black artistic creations and expressive cultures. Instead, what we are likely to find in their work is a continual play upon certain metaphorical figurations. For example, we find the quoted category “race,” and the presumption that its symbolism is all important, yet not much analysis of the causal force of racial categorization (racism) itself; meanwhile we find the categories ofambivalence, hybridity,andrepresentation,all of which in their repetitive and uncritical use are denuded of meaningful content. Sometimes the latter},
 author = {Alrick Cambridge},
 booktitle = {Re-Situating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture},
 pages = {161--184},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {The Beauty of Valuing Black Cultures},
 year = {1996}
}