Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Davis University of California)

Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa

Race, Childhood, and Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on multinational oral history and archival research, Rachel Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of multiracial people, or 'mà tis' in colonial French Africa. Offering a nuanced history of race-making, belonging, and rights, she shows how mà tis carved out varied visions of belonging in Africa, Europe, and internationally.

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Produktdetails

• African Identities: Past and Present
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489041
• ISBN-10: 1108489044
• Artikelnr.: 66801629

Autorenporträt

Rachel Jean-Baptiste is Associate Professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She has previously published Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon (2014), as well as articles in edited books and academic journals. She is co-president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History and serves on the boards of the African Studies Association and the UK editorial collective of Gender and History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Multiracial identities and the consolidation and
subversion of racialized French colonial rule in French west and equatorial
Africa, ca. 1900-1930; 2. Wards of the state: claiming and mediating
colonial government welfare and French institutional care of multiracial
children in the 1930s; 3. 'I am French': multiraciality and citizenship in
FWA and FEA, ca. 1928-38; 4. 'Odd notions of race': reconfiguring rights
of/to citizenship and children, 1939-ca. 1950; 5. The reconfiguration of
maternal and child welfare in Dakar, 1949-1956: Nicolas Rigonaux and the
Union of Eurafricans; 6. Multiracial internationalism: racial equality,
universal rights, and just Eurafrican futures, 1957-1960; Epilogue.