France has long defined itself as a color-blind nation where racial
bias has no place. Even today, the French universal curriculum for
secondary students makes no mention of race or slavery, and many
French scholars still resist addressing racial questions. Yet, as
this groundbreaking volume shows, color and other racial markers
have been major factors in French national life for more than three
hundred years. The sixteen essays in The Color of Liberty offer a
wealth of innovative research on the neglected history of race in
France, ranging from the early modern period to the present. The
Color of Liberty addresses four major themes: the evolution of race
as an idea in France; representations of "the other" in French
literature, art, government, and trade; the international
dimensions of French racial thinking, particularly in relation to
colonialism; and the impact of racial differences on the shaping of
the modern French city. The many permutations of race in French
history—as assigned identity, consumer product icon, scientific
discourse, philosophical problem, by-product of migration, or tool
in empire building—here receive nuanced treatments confronting
the malleability of ideas about race and the uses to which they
have been put. Contributors. Leora Auslander, Claude Blanckaert,
Alice Conklin, Fred Constant, Laurent Dubois, Yaël Simpson
Fletcher, Richard Fogarty, John Garrigus, Dana Hale, Thomas C.
Holt, Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Dennis McEnnerney, Michael A. Osborne,
Lynn Palermo, Sue Peabody, Pierre H. Boulle, Alyssa Goldstein
Sepinwall, Tyler Stovall, Michael G. Vann, Gary Wilder
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2003 |
First published: |
June 2003 |
Editors: |
Sue Peabody
• Tyler Stovall
|
Dimensions: |
226 x 146 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
400 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-3117-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8223-3117-9 |
Barcode: |
9780822331179 |
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