Black France

Author : Dominic Thomas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253218810

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Black France by Dominic Thomas Pdf

"[W]ithout a doubt one of the most important studies so far completed on literature in French grounded in the experiences of migrants of sub-Saharan African origin." —Alec Hargreaves, Florida State University France has always hosted a rich and vibrant black presence within its borders. But recent violent events have raised questions about France's treatment of ethnic minorities. Challenging the identity politics that have set immigrants against the mainstream, Black France explores how black expressive culture has been reformulated as global culture in the multicultural and multinational spaces of France. Thomas brings forward questions such as—Why is France a privileged site of civilization? Who is French? Who is an immigrant? Who controls the networks of production? Black France poses an urgently needed reassessment of the French colonial legacy.

Author : Trica Danielle Keaton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352624

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Black France / France Noire by Trica Danielle Keaton Pdf

In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496229984

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The Black Populations of France by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sylvain Pattieu,Emmanuelle Sibeud,Tyler Edward Stovall
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229977

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The Black Populations of France by Sylvain Pattieu,Emmanuelle Sibeud,Tyler Edward Stovall Pdf

This edited collection considers Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present.

Author : Robin Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820354330

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Vénus Noire by Robin Mitchell Pdf

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Author : David Beriss
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786729951

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Black Skins, French Voices by David Beriss Pdf

About 337,000 people of French Antillean Origin live in metropolitan France today. Unlike immigrants from North Africa, Turkey or sub-Saharan Africa, Antilleans are French citizens with deep roots in French history. Indeed, the Caribbean Islands they come from have been a part of France for over three centuries. Antilleans were for many years an invisible population, dispersed throughout the Paris region, with few community organizations and little political activism. Beginning in the early 1980s, however, activists in the Antillean community began to recognize that their status as citizens would not protect them from the growth of racism in France. From neighborhood groups interested in promoting traditional Martinican and Guadeloupan dance and music to politically charged associations, these new cultural militants denounced French colonialism, challenged racism, and demanded political representation. Black Skins, French Voices is situated at the intersection of changing French ideas and policies regarding ethnic diversity and Antillean demands for recognition. It shows the creative and exciting struggles of Antilleans to remake French culture on their own terms.

Author : Thomas Chatterton Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393608878

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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams Pdf

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his kids are white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them—or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.

Author : Félix Germain,Silyane Larcher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496210357

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Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 by Félix Germain,Silyane Larcher Pdf

Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France. In addition to delineating the powerful contributions of black French women in the struggle for equality, contributors also look at the experiences of African American women in Paris and in so doing integrate into colonial and postcolonial conversations the strategies black women have engaged in negotiating gender and race relations à la française. Drawing on research by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collection offers a fresh, multidimensional perspective on race, class, and gender relations in France and its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation from slavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Author : Frédéric Martel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804732744

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The Pink and the Black by Frédéric Martel Pdf

[While acknowledging that the development of France's homosexual communities was influenced by America, Martel highlights the differences arising from the fact that homosexuality has not been criminalised in France as in the United States] -- back cover.

Author : Stendhal
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726667967

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The Red and the Black by Stendhal Pdf

M. de Rênal is the mayor of a provincial town named Verrières, who hires Julien Sorel as a private teacher for his child. Sorel desires to become a real man and follow the steps of his hero – Napoleon. The young man thinks that it is his duty to seduce the mayor’s wife and they become lovers. However, their little secret will soon be revealed. Who will find out about the love affair? What is going to happen with the two lovers? Will mayor M. de Rênal also find out or the truth will be hidden from him? Find all the answers in Stendhal’s novel "The Red and the Black" from 1830. Stendhal (1783-1842), the pseudonym of Marie-Henry Beyle, was a French writer. A pioneer of literary realism, he is best known for his novels "The Red and the Black" (1830) and "The Charterhouse of Parma" (1839).

Author : Erika Vause
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813941424

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In the Red and in the Black by Erika Vause Pdf

"The most dishonorable act that can dishonor a man." Such is Félix Grandet’s unsparing view of bankruptcy, adding that even a highway robber—who at least "risks his own life in attacking you"—is worthier of respect. Indeed, the France of Balzac’s day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. Each year, thousands of debtors found themselves arrested for commercial debts. Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor—losing, among other rights and privileges, the ability to vote, to serve on a jury, or even to enter the stock market. Arguing that French Revolutionary and Napoleonic legislation created a conception of commercial identity that tied together the debtor’s social, moral, and physical person, In the Red and in the Black examines the history of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy as a means of understanding the changing logic of commercial debt. Following the practical application of these laws throughout the early nineteenth century, Erika Vause traces how financial failure and fraud became legally disentangled. The idea of personhood established in the Revolution’s aftermath unraveled over the course of the century owing to a growing penal ideology that stressed the state’s virtual monopoly over incarceration and to investors’ desire to insure their financial risks. This meticulously researched study offers a novel conceptualization of how central "the economic" was to new understandings of self, state, and the market. Telling a story deeply resonant in our own age of ambivalence about the innocence of failures by financial institutions and large-scale speculators, Vause reveals how legal personalization and depersonalization of debt was essential for unleashing the latent forces of capitalism itself.

Author : David Beriss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429981678

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Black Skins, French Voices by David Beriss Pdf

This book is about the choices black French citizens make when they move from Martinique and Guadeloupe to Paris and discover that they are not fully French. It shows how ethnic activists in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora organize to demand what has never been available to them in France.

Author : Tom Reiss
Publisher : Crown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307952950

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The Black Count by Tom Reiss Pdf

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • ONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave—who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution—until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical moment that made it possible." But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.

Author : Michel Fabre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0252063643

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From Harlem to Paris by Michel Fabre Pdf

This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre (The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulattos with inheritances from French slave-owners sent their children to Paris to be educated. The book concludes that acceptance and appreciation of black Americans were based largely of French distaste both for white Americans, whom the French found egotistical, and for black Africans, with whom the French had a bitter "mutual colonial history."

Author : Shelby T. McCloy
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813182094

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The Negro in France by Shelby T. McCloy Pdf

This historical study examines the black experience in Metropolitan France from the 1600s to 1960. Shelby T. McCloy explores the literary and cultural contributions of people of color to French society—from Alexandre Dumas to Rene Maran—and charts their political ascension.