"... 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 work, Hale blends historiography into the narrative flow in an almost seamless manner." —Michael Vann, Sacramento State University, H-French-Colonial, H-Net, April 2009 "... a worthy addition to the literature on colonial representation and French colonial history." —Karin Speedy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New Zealand Jrnl of French Studies, Vol.30.1 2009 "[This] book offers a broad view, in both time and space, surveying almost the entire life of the Third Republic as well as the major and widely dispersed areas of France's 'new' colonial empire. This allows the author to make important observations about how views of empire and race changed over time and to compare images of different 'races'." —European History Quarterly "Races on Display is a rich work. If its conclusions are not as novel as its wealth of detail, it will nonetheless appeal to an interdisciplinary audience and provoke the sort of discussion that will make it a useful text for classroom use." —Journal of Modern History, Vol. 82.3, September 2010 "Dana Hale's book provides an overview of the French case from the 1880s until the First World War, focusing on exhibitions (particularly in Paris in 1900, 1931 and 1937 and in Marseille in 1922) and on trade-marks used for advertising." —Journal Imperial and Commonwealth History