Empire''s Children - Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

Informationen zum Autor Emmanuelle Saada is associate professor of French at Columbia University. Arthur Goldhammer is an award-winning translator who has translated books by Georges Duby! Jacques Le Goff! and Jean Starobinski. Klappentext Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Zusammenfassung Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality.

Product details

• Authors: Emmanuelle Saada, Saada Emmanuelle
• Assisted by: Arthur Goldhammer (Translation), Goldhammer Arthur (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2012
• EAN: 9780226733081
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73308-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Ethnic Studies, France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General