Black France/France Noire

Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tyler Stovall, eds.

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.

Foreword. Black . . . A Color? A Kaleidoscope! / Christiane Taubira ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction. Blackness Matters, Blackness Made to Matter / Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall 1Part I. Theorizing and Narrating Blackness and BeloningBlack France: Myth or Reality?: Problems of Identity and Identification / Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi 17The Lost Territories of the Republic: Historical Narratives and the Recomposition of French Citizenship / Mamadou Diouf 32Eurafrique as the Future Past of Black France: Sarkozy's Temporal Confusion and Senghor's Postwar Vision / Gary Wilder 57Letter to France / Alain Mabanckou 88French Impressionism / Jake Lamar 96Part II. The Politics of Blackness¿Politicizing BlacknessThe Invention of Blacks in France / Patrick Lozès 103Immigration and National Identity in France / Dominic Thomas 110"Black France" and the National Identity Debate: How Best to Be Black and French? / Fred Constant 123Paint It "Black": How Africans and Afro-Caribbeans Became "Black" in France / Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga 145The "Question of Blackness" and the Memory of Slavery: Invisibility and Forgetting as Voluntary Fire and Some Pyromaniac Firefighters / Michel Giraud 173Part III. Black Paris¿Black FranceThe New Negro in Paris: Booker T. Washington, the New Negro, and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Marcus Bruce 207The Militant Black Men of Marseille and Paris, 1927¿1937 / Jennifer Boittin 221Reflections on the Future of Black France: Josephine Baker's Vision of a Global Village / Bennetta Jules-Rosette 247Site-ing Black Paris: Discourses and the Making of Identities / Arlette Frund 269Coda: Black Identity in France in a European Perspective / Allison Blakely 287About the Contributors 307Index 311