Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa - Race, Childhood, and Citizenship (Hardcover)

Despite increasingly hardened visions of racial difference in colonial governance in French Africa after World War I, interracial sexual relationships persisted, resulting in the births of thousands of children. These children, mostly born to African women and European men, sparked significant debate in French society about the status of multiracial people, debates historians have termed 'the metis problem.' Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research in Gabon, Republic of Congo, Senegal, and France, Rachel Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of metis. Crucially, she centres claims by metis themselves to access French social and citizenship rights amidst the refusal by fathers to recognize their lineage, and in the context of changing African racial thought and practice. In this original history of race-making, belonging, and rights, Jean-Baptiste demonstrates the diverse ways in which metis individuals and collectives carved out visions of racial belonging as children and citizens in Africa, Europe, and internationally.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	African Identities: Past and Present
Release date:	June 2023
Authors:	Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-48904-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	1-108-48904-4
Barcode:	9781108489041

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