Reproducing the French race : immigration, intimacy, and embodiment in the early twentieth century / Elisa Camiscioli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camiscioli, Elisa, 1967-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Government policy--France--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Racism--France--History--20th century.

Racism.

National characteristics, French.

France--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

France.

France--Ethnic relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Camiscioli demonstrates that mass immigration provided politicians, jurists, industrialists, racial theorists, feminists, and others with ample opportunity to explore questions of French racial belonging, France's relationship to the colonial empire and the rest of Europe, and the connections between race and nati

Contents:

Embodiment and the nation

Immigration, demography, and pronatalism

Labor power and the racial economy

Hybridity and its discontents

Black migrants, white slavery : metissage in the metropole and abroad

Intermarriage, independent nationality, and individual rights

Gender, race, and republican embodiment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613035974

9781283035972

1283035979

9780822391197

0822391198

OCLC:

456471255