The color of liberty : histories of race in France / edited by Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peabody, Sue.

Stovall, Tyler Edward.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--France.

Racism.

France--Race relations.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Traces the multiple histories of race and racial thinking over time in France and in Francophone areas of the globe.

Contents:

Foreword / Fred Constant

Introduction: Race, France, histories / Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall

1. Race: the evolution of an idea

Francois Bernier and the origins of the modern concept of race / Pierre H. Boulle

Eliminating race, eliminating difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbe Gregoire / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

Of monstrous Metis? Hybridity, fear of miscegenation, and patriotism from Buffon to Paul Broca / Claude Blanckaert

2. Representations of the other

Race, gender, and virtue in Haiti's failed foundational fiction: La mulatre comme il y a peu de blanches (1803) / John Garrigus

Inscribing race in the revolutionary French Antilles / Laurent Dubois

Sex, gender, and race in the colonial novels of Elissa Rhais and Lucienne Favre / Patricia M.E. Lorcin

French images of race on product trademarks during the Third Republic / Dana S. Hale

Sambo in Paris: race and racism in the iconography of the everyday / Leora Auslander and Thomas C. Holt

3. Colonial and global perspectives

Good, the bad, and the ugly: variation and difference in French racism in colonial Indochine / Michael G. Vann

Constructions and functions of race in French military medicine, 1830-1920 / Richard Fogarty and Michael A. Osborne

Panafricanism and the Republican political sphere / Gary Wilder

Frantz Fanon, the resistance, and the emergence of identity politics / Dennis McEnnerney

4. Race and the postcolonial city

Identity under construction: representing the colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 / Lynn E. Palermo

Who speaks for Africa? The Rene Maran-Blaise Diagne trial in 1920s Paris / Alice L. Conklin

Catholics, Communists, and colonial subjects: working-class militancy and racial difference in postwar Marseille / Yael Simpson Fletcher

From red belt to black belt: race, class, and urban marginality in twentieth-century Paris / Tyler Stovall.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed April 1, 2023)

ISBN:

1-282-92070-7

9786612920707

0-8223-8470-1

OCLC:

850218909