ISBN:
9781108802567
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Series Statement:
African Identities: Past and Present Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800960917541
Keywords:
Racially mixed people
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Explores the history of race-making, belonging, and rights by outlining the contested place of multiracial people in colonial French West and Equatorial Africa.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Race and Africa, Race in Africa -- Sources, Methods, and Organization of the Book -- 1 Multiracial Identities and the Consolidation and Subversion of Racialized French Colonial Rule in French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa, ca. 1900-1930 -- Multiraciality and French Colonial Thought, Practice, and Policies: Shifting Alliances of Church and State in FWA and FEA -- Anchors of Belonging in French Society: Motherhood and Fostering of Multiracial Children in FEA -- Disentangling Education of Children from French Legal Status -- Métis Men and Military Service: Gatekeeping French Citizenship in FWA -- Conclusion -- 2 Wards of the State: Claiming and Mediating Colonial Government Welfare and French Institutional Care of Multiracial Children in the 1930s -- The Colonial Welfare State in French Africa in the 1930s -- Colonial Welfare for Multiracial Children in Senegal -- Follow the Money: African Mothers, French Catholic Women, and Disbursement of Welfare Aid for Métisses Girls -- Multiracial Children and Colonial Welfare in Gabon: The Association of Métis in Libreville -- Boarding Home-School for Métis Children -- Conclusion: A Child Ward Grows Up -- 3 ''I Am French'': Multiraciality and Citizenship in FWA and FEA, ca. 1928-1938 -- Race and Citizenship in French Metropolitan and Colonial Thought and Law, ca. 1928-1930 -- Step One of Petitioning for French Citizenship in FWA: Proving Frenchness -- Step Two of Petitioning for Citizenship: Proving Filiation in Colonial Court -- Children and Citizenship: Parental Rights and Colonial Law in FWA -- Adults and Citizenship: Frenchness, Filiation, and Naming in FWA -- The Promulgation of Métis Citizenship Law in FEA, 1931-1936.
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