Peabody / Stovall The Color of Liberty

Histories of Race in France
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8470-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Traces the multiple histories of race and racial thinking over time in France and in Francophone areas of the globe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peabody, Sue

Stovall, Tyler

Weitere Mitwirkende

Constant, M. Fred

Boulle, Pierre H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword / Fred Constant ix

Introduction: Race, France, Histories / Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall 1

1. Race: The Evolution of an Idea

Francois Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race / Pierre H. Boulle 11

Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbe Gregoire / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 28

Of Monstrous Metis? Hybridity, Fear of Miscegenation, and Patriotism from Buffon to Paul Broca / Claude Blanckaert 42

2. Representations of the Other

Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti’s Failed Foundational Fiction: La mulatre comme il y a peu de blanches (1803) / John Garrigus 73

Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles / Laurent DuBois 95

Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhais and Lucienne Favre / Patricia M. E. Lorcin 108

French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic / Dana S. Hale 131

Sambo in Paris: Race and Racism in the Iconography of the Everyday / Leora Auslander and Thomas C. Holt 147

3. Colonial and Global Perspectives

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racism in Colonial Indochine / Michael G. Vann 187

Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830–1920 / Richard Fogerty and Michael A. Osborne 206

Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere / Gary Wilder 237

Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics / Dennis McEnnerney 259

4. Race and the Postcolonial City

Identity under Construction: Representing the Colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 / Lynn E. Palermo 285

Who Speaks for Africa? The Rene Maran-Blaise Diagne Trial in 1920s Paris / Alice L. Conklin 302

Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects: Working-Class Militancy and Racial Difference in Postwar Marseille / Yael Simpson Fletcher 338

From Red Belt to Black Belt: Race, Class, and Urban Marginality in Twentieth-Century Paris / Tyler Stovall 351

Contributors 371

Index 377

Über Autor(innen)

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.