Introduction: Race, France, Histories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction: Race, France, Histories 1
6. 1 Race: The Evolution of an Idea
7. François Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race 11
8. Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: 28
9. Of Monstrous Métis? 42
10. 2 Representations of the Other
11. Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti’s Failed Foundational Fiction: 73
12. Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles 95
13. Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhaïs and Lucienne Favre 108
14. French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic 131
15. Sambo in Paris 147
16. 3 Colonial and Global Perspectives
17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 187
18. Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830–1920 206
19. Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere 237
20. Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics 259
21. 4 Race and the Postcolonial City
22. Identity under Construction 285
23. Who Speaks for Africa? 302
24. Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects 338
25. From Red Belt to Black Belt 351
26. Notes on Contributors 371
27. Index 377