It offers an ideal introduction to complicated issues involved in formulating a black French identity. “ Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness… uses a nuanced approach to discuss and problematize variously identified questions by relying on solid contributions from a diverse group of authors to form a well-rounded interpretation of race issues in France…. “ Black France / France Noire offers a valuable snapshot of the vexed status of blackness in present-day France and illuminating historical genealogies for its reemergence and significance.” - Alexander G.
It is my hope that this particular approach will contribute to a deepening historical and cultural address to the complex implications of black Diasporic subjectivity.” - Peter J. “This volume makes an important claim for the field of Black French studies as a bridge between constructions of Black identity in France to African American studies….
Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Tyler Stovall, Christiane Taubira, Dominic Thomas, Gary Wilder Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Allison Blakely, Jennifer Anne Boittin, Marcus Bruce, Fred Constant, Mamadou Diouf, Arlette Frund, Michel Giraud, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Trica Danielle Keaton, Jake Lamar, Patrick Lozès, Alain Mabanckou, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, T. Black France / France Noire is a distinctive and important contribution to the increasingly public debates on diversity, race, racialization, and multicultural intolerance in French society and beyond.Ĭontributors. Contributors to this collection of essays demonstrate that blackness in France is less an identity than a response to and rejection of anti-black racism. Any claim of color-blindness is belied by experiences of anti-black racism, which render blackness a real and consequential historical, social, and political formation. The vaunted universalist principles of the French Republic are far from realized. Yet the lived realities of race and racism are ever-present in the nation's supposedly race-blind society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society.
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