Black France / France Noire (eBook, PDF)

The History and Politics of Blackness
Redaktion: Trica Danielle Keaton, Keaton

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Produktbeschreibung

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. The vaunted universalist principles of the French Republic are far from realized. Any claim of color-blindness is belied by experiences of anti-black racism, which render blackness a real and consequential historical, social, and political formation. Contributors to this collection of essays demonstrate that blackness in France is less an identity than a response to and rejection of anti-black racism. Black France / France Noire is a distinctive and important contribution to the increasingly public debates on diversity, race, racialization, and multicultural intolerance in French society and beyond.Contributors. Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Allison Blakely, Jennifer Anne Boittin, Marcus Bruce, Fred Constant, Mamadou Diouf, Arlette Frund, Michel Giraud, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Trica Danielle Keaton, Jake Lamar, Patrick Lozes, Alain Mabanckou, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Tyler Stovall, Christiane Taubira, Dominic Thomas, Gary Wilder

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822395348
• Artikelnr.: 54794415

Autorenporträt

Trica Danielle Keaton is Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion and a coeditor of Black Europe and the African Diaspora. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of French and of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women and Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French, also published by Duke University Press. Tyler Stovall is Professor of French history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light and a coeditor of The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Black . . . A Color? A Kaleidoscope! / Christiane Taubira ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Blackness Matters, Blackness Made to Matter / Trica Danielle
Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall 1
Part I. Theorizing and Narrating Blackness and Beloning
Black France: Myth or Reality?: Problems of Identity and Identification /
Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi 17
The Lost Territories of the Republic: Historical Narratives and the
Recomposition of French Citizenship / Mamadou Diouf 32
Eurafrique as the Future Past of Black France: Sarkozy's Temporal Confusion
and Senghor's Postwar Vision / Gary Wilder 57
Letter to France / Alain Mabanckou 88
French Impressionism / Jake Lamar 96
Part II. The Politics of Blackness-Politicizing Blackness
The Invention of Blacks in France / Patrick Lozès 103
Immigration and National Identity in France / Dominic Thomas 110
"Black France" and the National Identity Debate: How Best to Be Black and
French? / Fred Constant 123
Paint It "Black": How Africans and Afro-Caribbeans Became "Black" in France
/ Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga 145
The "Question of Blackness" and the Memory of Slavery: Invisibility and
Forgetting as Voluntary Fire and Some Pyromaniac Firefighters / Michel
Giraud 173
Part III. Black Paris-Black France
The New Negro in Paris: Booker T. Washington, the New Negro, and the Paris
Exposition of 1900 / Marcus Bruce 207
The Militant Black Men of Marseille and Paris, 1927-1937 / Jennifer Boittin
221
Reflections on the Future of Black France: Josephine Baker's Vision of a
Global Village / Bennetta Jules-Rosette 247
Site-ing Black Paris: Discourses and the Making of Identities / Arlette
Frund 269
Coda: Black Identity in France in a European Perspective / Allison Blakely
287
About the Contributors 307
Index 311