Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 320 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780803229938
Series Statement:
France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
Content:
World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes, both metropolitan and overseas. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded. Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France's colonial empire attracted denizens from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely their home but also a site for political engagement. Colonial Metropolis tells the story of the interactions and connections of these black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris, and of how both were denied certain rights lauded by the Third Republic, such as the vote, suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as subversive.This compelling book maps the intellectual and physical locales that the disenfranchised residents of Paris frequented, revealing where their stories intersected and how the personal and local became political and transnational. With a focus on art, culture, politics, and society, this study reveals how both groups considered themselves inhabitants of a colonial metropolis and uncovers the strategies they used to colonize the city. Together, through the politics of anti-imperialism, communism, feminism, and masculinity, these urbanites connected performances of colonial and feminine tropes, such as Josephine Baker's, to contestations of the colonial system.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. Josephine Baker: Colonial Woman -- 2. Dancing Dissidents & Dissident Dancers: The Urban Topography of Race -- 3. A Black Colony?: Race and the Origins of Anti-Imperialism -- 4. Reverse Exoticism & Masculinity: The Cultural Politics of Race Relations -- 5. In Black & White: Women, La Depeche Africaine, and the Print Culture of the Diaspora -- 6. "These Men's Minor Transgressions": White Frenchwomen on Colonialism and Feminism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803225459
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Boittin, Jennifer Anne Colonial metropolis Lincoln, Neb. : Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2010 ISBN 9780803225459
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Paris
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Stadtleben
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Feminismus
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Antiimperialismus
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Geschichte 1918-1939
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