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Informationen zum Autor Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tyler Stovall, eds. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
