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