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基本説明
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.
Full Description
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. RÉmy 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 LozÈs, Alain Mabanckou, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Tyler Stovall, Christiane Taubira, Dominic Thomas, Gary Wilder
Contents
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
