Black France: Myth or Reality?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword Black . . . A Color? A Kaleidoscope! ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction Blackness Matters, Blackness Made to Matter 1
6. Part I Theorizing and Narrating Blackness and Belonging
7. Black France: Myth or Reality? 17
8. The Lost Territories of the Republic 32
9. Eurafrique as the Future Past of ‘‘Black France’’ 57
10. Letter to France 88
11. French Impressionism 96
12. Part II The Politics of Blackness—Politicizing Blackness
13. The Invention of Blacks in France 103
14. Immigration and National Identity in France 110
15. ’’Black France’’ and the National Identity Debate 123
16. Paint It ‘‘Black’’ 145
17. The ‘‘Question of Blackness’’ and the Memory of Slavery 173
18. Part III Black Paris—Black France
19. The New Negro in Paris 207
20. The Militant Black Men of Marseille and Paris, 1927–1937 221
21. Reflections on the Future of Black France 247
22. Site-ing Black Paris 269
23. Coda: Black Identity in France in a European Perspective 287
24. About the Contributors 307
25. Index 311