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Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness

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Description for Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness Paperback. The History and Politics of Blackness. 344 pages, 4 illustrations. Editor(s): Keaton, Trica Danielle; Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean; Stovall, Tyler. A distinctive and important contribution to the increasingly public debates on diversity, race, racialization, and multicultural intolerance in French society and beyond. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; JFSL3; JHMC. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 20. Weight: 490.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822352624
SKU
V9780822352624
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About Trica Daniell Keaton
Trica Danielle Keaton is Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion and a coeditor of Black Europe and the African Diaspora. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of French and of African American and Diaspora ... Read more

Reviews for Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness
"Black France / France Noire is the most comprehensive and urgent anthology regarding the questions of citizenship and belonging in France since Pierre Bourdieu's The Weight of the World. There's also a salutary combination of scholarly and personal narratives in this book, which elevates it to the stature of a groundbreaking manifesto, the controversial nature of which will be discussed ... Read more

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