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almafu_9959712395202883
Format:
1 online resource (400 p.) :
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13 illustrations
ISBN:
9780822384700
Content:
France has long defined itself as a color-blind nation where racial bias has no place. Even today, the French universal curriculum for secondary students makes no mention of race or slavery, and many French scholars still resist addressing racial questions. Yet, as this groundbreaking volume shows, color and other racial markers have been major factors in French national life for more than three hundred years. The sixteen essays in The Color of Liberty offer a wealth of innovative research on the neglected history of race in France, ranging from the early modern period to the present.The Color of Liberty addresses four major themes: the evolution of race as an idea in France; representations of "the other" in French literature, art, government, and trade; the international dimensions of French racial thinking, particularly in relation to colonialism; and the impact of racial differences on the shaping of the modern French city. The many permutations of race in French history—as assigned identity, consumer product icon, scientific discourse, philosophical problem, by-product of migration, or tool in empire building—here receive nuanced treatments confronting the malleability of ideas about race and the uses to which they have been put.Contributors. Leora Auslander, Claude Blanckaert, Alice Conklin, Fred Constant, Laurent Dubois, Yaël Simpson Fletcher, Richard Fogarty, John Garrigus, Dana Hale, Thomas C. Holt, Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Dennis McEnnerney, Michael A. Osborne, Lynn Palermo, Sue Peabody, Pierre H. Boulle, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Tyler Stovall, Michael G. Vann, Gary Wilder
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Foreword --
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Introduction: Race, France, Histories --
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1 Race: The Evolution of an Idea --
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François Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race --
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Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: --
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Of Monstrous Métis? --
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2 Representations of the Other --
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Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti’s Failed Foundational Fiction: --
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Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles --
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Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhaïs and Lucienne Favre --
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French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic --
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Sambo in Paris --
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3 Colonial and Global Perspectives --
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly --
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Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830–1920 --
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Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere --
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Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics --
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4 Race and the Postcolonial City --
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Identity under Construction --
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Who Speaks for Africa? --
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Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects --
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From Red Belt to Black Belt --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822384700
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384700
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822384700
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384700
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822384700
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