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Seeking Imperialism's Embrace - National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean (Hardcover)
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Seeking Imperialism's Embrace - National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean (Hardcover)
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In 1946, at a time when other French colonies were just beginning
to break free of French imperial control after World War II, the
people of the French Antilles-the Caribbean islands of Martinique
and Guadeloupe-voted to join the French nation as departments
(Departments d'outre mer, or DOMs). For Antilleans, eschewing
independence in favor of complete integration with the metropole
was the natural culmination of a centuries-long quest for equality
with France and a means of overcoming the entrenched political and
economic power of the white minority on the islands, the Bekes.
Disappointment with departmentalization set in quickly, however, as
the equality promised was slow in coming and Antillean
contributions to the war effort went unrecognized. In analyzing the
complex considerations surrounding the integration of the French
Antilleans, Seeking Imperialism's Embrace explores how the major
developments of post-WWII history-economic recovery, great power
politics, global population dynamics, the creation of pluralistic
societies in the West, and the process of decolonization-played out
in the microcosm of the French Caribbean. As the French government
struggled to stem unrest among a growing population in the Antilles
through economic development, tourism, and immigration to the
metropole where labor was in short supply, those who had championed
departmentalization, such as Aime Cesaire, argued that the
"race-blind" Republic was far from universal and egalitarian.
Antilleans fought against the racial and gender stereotypes imposed
on them and sought both to stem the tide of white metropolitan
workers arriving in the Antilles and also to make better lives for
their families in France. Kristen Stromberg Childers argues that
while departmentalization is often criticized as a weak alternative
to national independence, the overwhelmingly popular vote among
Antilleans should not be dismissed as ill-conceived. The
disappointment that followed, she contends, reflects more on the
broken promises of assimilation rather than the misguided nature of
the vote itself.
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