| Contents |
Foreword: black : a color? a kaleidoscope! / by Christiane Taubira -- Introduction: blackness matters, blackness made to matter / by Trica Danielle Keaton, Tracy- Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall -- Black France : myth or reality? : problems of identity and identification / by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi -- The lost territories of the republic : historical narratives and the recomposition of French citizenship / by Mamadou Diouf -- Eurafrique as the future past of black France : recognizing Leopold Sedar Senghor's postwar vision / by Gary Wilder -- Letter to Grance / by Alain Mabanckou -- French impressionism / by Jake Lamar -- The invention of Blacks in France / by Patrick Lozès, -- Immigration and national identity in France / by Dominic Thomas -- "Black France" and the national identity debate : how best to be black and French? / by Fred Constant -- Paint it "black" : how Africans and Afro-Caribbeans became "black" in France / by Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga -- The "question of blackness" and the memory of slavery : invisibility and forgetting as voluntary fire and some pyromaniac firefighters / by Michel Giraud -- The new Negro in Paris : Booker T. Washington, the new Negro and the Paris exposition of 1900 / by Marcus Bruce -- The militant black men of Marseille and Paris, 1927-1937 / by Jennifer Boittin -- Reflections on the future of black France : Josephine Baker's vision of a global village / by Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- Site-ing black Paris : discourses and the making of identities / by Arlette Frund -- Coda: black identity in France in a European perspective / by Allison Blakely. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011041905 |
| ISBN | 9780822352471 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822352478 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822352624 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822352621 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
