ISBN:
9780822352471
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (341 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Black France / France Noire : The History and Politics of Blackness
DDC:
305.896
Keywords:
Blacks -- France
;
France -- Race relations
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I -Theorizing and Narrating Blackness and Belonging; Black France: Myth or Reality? : Problems of Identity and Identification; The Lost Territories of the Republic: Historical Narratives and the Recomposition of French Citizenship; Eurafrique as the Future Past of ''Black France'' : Sarkozy's Temporal Confusion and Senghor's Postwar Vision; Letter to France; French Impressionism; Part II - The Politics of Blackness-Politicizing Blackness; The Invention of Blacks in France; Immigration and National Identity in France
Description / Table of Contents:
''Black France'' and the National Identity Debate: How Best to Be Black and French?Paint It ''Black'' : How Africans and Afro-Caribbeans Became ""Black"" in France; The ''Question of Blackness'' and the Memory of Slavery: Invisibility and Forgetting as Voluntary Fire and Some Pyromaniac Firefighters; Part III - Black Paris-Black France; The New Negro in Paris: Booker T. Washington, the New Negro, and the Paris Exposition of 1900; The Militant Black Menof Marseille and Paris, 1927-1937; Reflections on the Future of Black France: Josephine Baker's Vision of a Global Village
Description / Table of Contents:
Site-ing Black Paris: Discourses and the Making of IdentitiesCoda: Black Identity in Francein a European Perspective; About the Contributors; Index
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