Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 215 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780253218995
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9780253348548
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9780253000149
Content:
While European commerce in race was substantial, the colonial trade in ideas of race was highly profitable as well. Looking at official propaganda and commercial representations in France during the Third Republic, this book explores the way the French increased the value of their racial identity at home at the expense of their colonized brothers and sisters. The French did not create the identity-effacing stereotypes of Africans, Arabs, and Indochinese. Instead they refined or remolded these images, and
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-206) and index
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Cover; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. ON THE PATH TO CIVILIZATION, 1886-1913; 1. Overseas Empire and Race during the Third Republic; 2. Sub- Saharan Africans: "Uncivilized Types"; 3. North Africans: Mysterious Peoples; 4. Indochinese: Gentle Subjects; PART II. CHILDREN OF FRANCE, 1914-1940; Introduction to Part 2; 5. Sub- Saharan Africans: La Force Noire; 6. North Africans: Fils Aîné; 7. Indochinese: Fils Doué; 8. La Mère- Patrie and Her Colonial Children: France on Display; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253348548
Additional Edition:
Print version Races on Display : French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940
Language:
English
