Comment dire « blackness » en français ? Construire l’identité noire entre l’hexagone, la Martinique et les États-Unis

Abstract

This analysis of French blackness and of the “thin” or “thick” identities that are articulated in it implies incorporating the history and political work that may have contributed to producing a social image of Blacks in the context of postcolonial France. Far from constituting a simple import of the history of the United States, the article shows how it is possible to envisage the contours taken by a French-style blackness by comparing France and the United States and by developing an analysis based on the French Caribbean territories marked by circulations in the whole of the Black Atlantic.