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The Color of Liberty
Histories of Race in France
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Edited by:
Sue Peabody
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With contributions by:
M. Fred Constant
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2003
About this book
Traces the multiple histories of race and racial thinking over time in France and in Francophone areas of the globe.
Author / Editor information
Sue Peabody is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University Vancouver and the author of "There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime.
Tyler Stovall is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include France since the Second World War, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light, and The Rise of the Paris Red Belt.
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“‘The French are not racists like the Americans!’ ‘But are they French racists?’ All of us, both French and American observers, have been bedeviled by some variant of this exchange I once had about the homeland of universal equality. This collection of transatlantic essays is the first systematic sounding of the praxis of race in French history. The contributions by American, Caribbean, and European-French specialists are universally fascinating and smart. The Color of Liberty is now the best thing on the subject in any language. We need it.”—Herman Lebovics, author of True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945
“According to some observers, color-coded racism is an American problem that the French have, for the most part, managed to avoid. This fine collection of essays raises considerable doubt about that assumption. The authors show that race has been constructed somewhat differently in the two republics, but also demonstrate that the French, like the Americans, have often failed to live up to their own egalitarian principles when it came to relations with people whom they considered nonwhite.”—George M. Fredrickson, author of Racism: A Short History
“Enfin! Stovall and Peabody take up the call to place race at the center of French history and enlist a range of skilled scholars to show its tenacious filaments and deeply French roots. This volume gives substance to the diverse genealogies of racisms in the making of France while accounting for their troubling contemporary presence.”—Ann L. Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Foreword
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Introduction: Race, France, Histories
1 - 1 Race: The Evolution of an Idea
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François Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race
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Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference:
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Of Monstrous Métis?
42 - 2 Representations of the Other
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Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti’s Failed Foundational Fiction:
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Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles
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Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhaïs and Lucienne Favre
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French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic
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Sambo in Paris
147 - 3 Colonial and Global Perspectives
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830–1920
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Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere
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Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics
259 - 4 Race and the Postcolonial City
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Identity under Construction
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Who Speaks for Africa?
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Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects
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From Red Belt to Black Belt
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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June 30, 2003
eBook ISBN:
9780822384700
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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400
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13 illustrations
