Black France/France noire : the history and politics of blackness / Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tyler Stovall, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keaton, Trica Danielle.

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean.

Stovall, Tyler, 1954-2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--France.

Black people.

France--Race relations.

France.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Summary:

In Black France/France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category, yet the lived realities of race and racism are ever-present in the nation's supposedly race-blind society. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword: black : a color? a kaleidoscope! / by Christiane Taubira

Introduction: blackness matters, blackness made to matter / by Trica Danielle Keaton, Tracy- Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall

Black France : myth or reality? : problems of identity and identification / by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi

The lost territories of the republic : historical narratives and the recomposition of French citizenship / by Mamadou Diouf

Eurafrique as the future past of black France : recognizing Leopold Sedar Senghor's postwar vision / by Gary Wilder

Letter to Grance / by Alain Mabanckou

French impressionism / by Jake Lamar

The invention of Blacks in France / by Patrick Lozès,

Immigration and national identity in France / by Dominic Thomas

"Black France" and the national identity debate : how best to be black and French? / by Fred Constant

Paint it "black" : how Africans and Afro-Caribbeans became "black" in France / by Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga

The "question of blackness" and the memory of slavery : invisibility and forgetting as voluntary fire and some pyromaniac firefighters / by Michel Giraud

The new Negro in Paris : Booker T. Washington, the new Negro and the Paris exposition of 1900 / by Marcus Bruce

The militant black men of Marseille and Paris, 1927-1937 / by Jennifer Boittin

Reflections on the future of black France : Josephine Baker's vision of a global village / by Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Site-ing black Paris : discourses and the making of identities / by Arlette Frund

Coda: black identity in France in a European perspective / by Allison Blakely.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822352471

0822352478

9780822352624

0822352621

OCLC:

757935709