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    The Black Populations of France
    Histories from Metropole to Colony

    Sylvain Pattieu (Edited by), Emmanuelle Sibeud (Edited by), Tyler Stovall (Edited by)

    9781496228819

    Hardback, published 1 February 2022

    236 pages, 5 charts, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.494 kg

    "The broad scope, multidisciplinary sensibility, and archival rigor make The Black Populations of France a treasure-trove of innovative study and historiographic information. The book can be adopted for courses connected to Black Europe, France, colonization and decolonization, overseas territories, race, national identity and citizenship, and more."-Christy L. Pichichero, Journal of Modern History
    “A needed expansion and corrective to the history of France, whose long-standing and diverse Black populations remain insufficiently explored. The originality of this book also resides in its geographical reach, as it extends beyond the metropole to a vast overseas territorial divide. . . . At the same time [it elucidates] the temporal fluidity of race and Blackness in these geographies, which contradict and complicate France’s cherished ideals of universalism and citizenship.”-Trica Keaton, coeditor of Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness

    The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present. The contributors to this collection explore three main axes. The first addresses circulations-the ways Black populations have moved through the spaces of metropolitan France and the empire-and focuses on the actors themselves and the margins of maneuver available to them, particularly as soldiers, sailors, immigrants, or political militants. The second considers legacies and the ways the past has informed the present, addressing themes such as the memory of slavery, the histories of Black women and gender, and the historical influence of African Americans on Blacks in France. The final axis considers racial policy and the ways the state has shaped racial discourses through the interactions between state policies and ideas of race developed by individuals, organizations, and communities. The Black Populations of France makes an important contribution to both modern French history and the history of the global Black diaspora. By putting these histories in dialogue with each other, it underscores the central place of France in world history.
     

    Introduction: The Black Populations of France: An Historical Mosaic
    Sylvain Pattieu, Emmanuelle Sibeud, Tyler Stovall

    Colonial France in Africa
    1. The Inopportune Citizenship of the Inhabitants of Sainte-Marie de Madagascar (1907-1949): An Imperial Contradiction?
    Emmanuelle Sibeud,
    2. Colonial Misappropriations of Trans-Saharan Legacies: Abid al-Bukhari and
    Tirailleurs Sé
    né
    galais     in Imperial and Colonial Morocco
    Sarah Zimmerman
    3. Returning from France after World War II: African Soldiers and the Reshaping of Colonial and Racial Categories in French West Africa
    Ruth Ginio

    Blacks in Metropolitan France
    4. Black Families in France (18th-19th Centuries): Some Cases
    Pierre H. Boulle
    5. By Land or by Sea: “
    Marins Indigè
    nes    ”
    and Maritime Economies of Race and Labor
    Minayo Nasiali
    6. “
    A Woman Like Any Other:”
    The Intimacy of Dislocation in Early Twentieth Century Paris and Rufisque
    Jennifer Boittin
    7. BUMIDOM (Bureau pour le dé
    veloppement des migrations dans les dé
    partements d’
    Outre-Mer), 1963-1982: Organizing Overseas Migrations to the Metropole, Actions and Contradictions
    Sylvain Pattieu

    The Politics of Race in France Today
    8. Contemporary French Caribbean Politics
    Audrey Cé
    lestine
    9. Racially Imprinted Bodies: The Black Feminine Press in Contemporary France
    Sarah Fila-Bakabadio
    10 France in Noir and Black: Stereotypes and the Politics of the Recognition of Black Populations
    Franck F. Ekué

    11. Solidarity or Difference? African Americans and the Making of Black France
    Tyler Stovall

    Conclusion: Towards a History of Black France, and a Black History of France
    Contributors
    Index
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