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Author:   Félix Germain ,  Silyane Larcher ,  T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
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9781496201270

ISBN 10:   1496201272
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Introduction: Marianne Is Also Black Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher Part 1. Black Women in Politics and Society 1. Originaire Women and Political Life in Senegal’s Four Communes Hilary Jones 2. Christiane Taubira, a Black Woman in Politics in French Guiana and in France Stéphanie Guyon 3. A Passion for Justice: The Role of Women in the Aliker Case Monique Milia-Marie-Luce Part 2. Feminist and Postcolonial Movements for Equality 4. French Caribbean Feminism in the Postdepartmentalization Era Félix Germain 5. The End of Silence: On the Revival of Afrofeminism in Contemporary France Silyane Larcher 6. Gerty Archimède and the Struggle for Decolonial Citizenship in the French Antilles, 1946–51 Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Part 3. Respectability, Resistance, and Transnational Identities 7. A Black Woman’s Life in the Struggle: Jean McNair in France Tyler Stovall 8. Am I My Sister’s Keeper? The Politics of Propriety and the Fight for Equality in the Works of French Antillean Women Writers, 1920s–40s Jacqueline Couti 9. Between Respectability and Resistance: French Caribbean Women Confronted by Masculine Domination during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Stéphanie Mulot and Nadine Lefaucheur Part 4. The Dialectics between Body, Nation, and Representation 10. Media and the Politics of “Re-presentation” of the Black Female Body Sarah Fila-Bakabadio 11. Shaking the Racial and Gender Foundations of France: The Influences of “Sarah Baartman” in the Production of Frenchness Robin Mitchell Part 5. Black Women Critique the “Empire” 12. Discourse on Immigration: Fatou Diome’s Commitment to Human Rights in The Belly of the Atlantic Joseph Diémé 13. Remapping the Metropolis: Theorizing Black Women’s Subjectivities in Interwar Paris Claire Oberon Garcia 14. Social Imaginaries in Tension? The Women of Cameroon’s Battle for Equal Rights under French Rule at the Turn of the 1940s–50s Rose Ndengue Contributors Index

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A timely and compelling contribution to multiple fields, including French history as well as African, African-American, Caribbean, black, and diaspora studies. Larcher and Germain expand the burgeoning fields of black European studies and French colonial history by putting multiple disciplines in dialogue via their contributors' aggregate explorations of intersections between race and gender. The editors have managed to think through a reading of Frenchness that reaches beyond citizenship to include black women who spent their lives in France and/or the French empire, even if they did not possess French identity papers. -Jennifer Anne Boittin, author of Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris -- Jennifer Anne Boittin

A timely and compelling contribution to multiple fields, including French history as well as African, African American, Caribbean, black, and diaspora studies. Larcher and Germain expand the burgeoning fields of black European studies and French colonial history by putting multiple disciplines in dialogue via their contributors' aggregate explorations of intersections between race and gender. The editors have managed to think through a reading of Frenchness that reaches beyond citizenship to include black women who spent their lives in France and/or the French empire, even if they did not possess French identity papers. -Jennifer Anne Boittin, author of Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris -- Jennifer Anne Boittin The contributors to this volume call attention to the diverse ways in which class, gender, religion, culture, racial discrimination, and migration have contributed to a pluralistic formulation of blackness, femininity, and Frenchness that defies uniformity and fixation into a single category of thought. -Severine Bates, French Review -- Severine Bates * French Review * This is a collection that gives a flavour and an overview of the ways that black French women have fought for equality and is, I hope, a prelude for further research. It certainly inspired me to explore the rise of Afrofeminism and return to the work of the Nardal sisters and their legacy. -Anya Edmond-Pettitt, Race & Class -- Anya Edmond-Pettitt * Race & Class * This corpus of work importantly showcases the research of minority scholars and advances the literature concerning gender and race in francophone, colonial, and postcolonial studies. Black French Women investigates struggles for equality and provides a model for centering those struggles in academic work. -Sarah Zimmerman, Journal of Interdisciplinary History -- Sarah Zimmerman * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * This wide-ranging volume, in total, makes a compelling case for rethinking metropolitan politics and black French women's history and theory. In its interdisciplinary approach, its melding of colonial and postcolonial France and overseas France into one analytic field, it offers rich possibilities for future research and theorizing about black feminisms, resistance, and, perhaps the single most contested political ideology in the world, equality. -Brett A. Berliner, H-France -- Brett A. Berliner * H-France *

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Félix Germain is an assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Decolonizing the Republic: African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar France, 1946–1974. Silyane Larcher is a historical and political sociologist working as a research scholar at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She is the author of The Other Citizen: The Republican Ideal and the West Indies after Slavery.

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