Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1 If Only You’d Been Lighter 1
6. 2 A Black Princess and White Nannies 5
7. 3 You Will Play Balthazar, My Dear 11
8. 4 Does Class Erase Race? 18
9. 5 A “Little French Girl” in Ivory Coast 27
10. 6 My Grandfather, Alphonse Boni 33
11. 7 Slavery and the Holocaust: Why I Am a Humanist 44
12. 8 When My Grandmother Married a Black Man 54
13. 9 An “African Girl” in Bordeaux 64
14. 10 What Color Is the French Language? 77
15. 11 Why Race Trumps Class 83
16. 12 Alphonse and Rose-Marie: A Mixed-Race Couple in the Colonies 88
17. 13 A Little Story About Discrimination 97
18. 14 My First Black Role Models 103
19. 15 The Adventure of Revue Noire 111
20. 16 French “Integration” 121
21. 17 Where Are You From? 127
22. 18 Coming Out of the Race Closet 134
23. 19 Good Hair 141
24. 20 Alphonse’s Dilemmas 156
25. 21 Fault Lines 173
26. 22 French TV: Keeping Out the Color 183
27. 23 The White Norm 201
28. 24 Run, Black Man, Run! 210
29. 25 The Guerlain Affair 215
30. 26 The Three Fears 230
31. 27 On the Advantage of Being White 240
32. 28 In It Together 245
33. 29 That’s a Wrap 257
34. Notes 263