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Black France/France Noire : The History and Politics of Blackness
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keaton, Trica Danielle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--France.
- Black people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- ''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
- Site-ing Black Paris: Discourses and the Making of IdentitiesCoda: Black Identity in Francein a European Perspective; About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613688736
- 9781280778346
- 1280778342
- 9780822395348
- 0822395347
- OCLC:
- 809810524
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