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5%OFFDana S. Hale - Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940 - 9780253218995 - V9780253218995
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Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940

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Description for Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940 Paperback. While European commerce in race was substantial, the colonial trade in ideas of race was profitable as well. Looking at official propaganda and commercial representations in France during the Third Republic, this book explores the way the French increased the value of their identity at home at the expense of their colonized brothers and sisters. Num Pages: 232 pages, 20 b&w photos, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFD; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 401.

While European commerce in race was substantial, the colonial trade in ideas of race was highly profitable as well. Looking at official propaganda and commercial representations in France during the Third Republic, this book explores the way the French increased the value of their racial identity at home at the expense of their colonized brothers and sisters. The French did not create the identity-effacing stereotypes of Africans, Arabs, and Indochinese. Instead they refined or remolded these images, and as they did so they redefined and remolded their images of themselves. Focusing on world’s fairs, colonial expositions, and mundane manufacturers’ trademarks, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253218995
SKU
V9780253218995
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About Dana S. Hale
Dana S. Hale received her Ph.D. in Comparative History from Brandeis University and taught history at Howard University from 1998 to 2005. She is author of several essays.

Reviews for Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940
"... very clear and straight-forward. The introduction is brief and refreshingly unencumbered with theoretical jargon; indeed, the work as a whole is free of the commonly cumbersome and overly complex intellectual gymnastics of many postcolonial studies of racial images. In these opening pages, Hale lays out her argument and gives the reader a clear blueprint for the text. Throughout the ... Read more

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