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By Sue Peabody,Tyler Stovall,M. Fred Constant,Pierre H. Boulle

ISBN-10: 0822331179

ISBN-13: 9780822331179

ISBN-10: 0822331306

ISBN-13: 9780822331308

France has lengthy outlined itself as a color-blind kingdom the place racial bias has no position. Even this present day, the French common curriculum for secondary scholars makes no point out of race or slavery, and plenty of French students nonetheless withstand addressing racial questions. but, as this groundbreaking quantity exhibits, colour and different racial markers were significant components in French nationwide existence for greater than 300 years. The 16 essays in The colour of Liberty supply a wealth of cutting edge study at the ignored background of race in France, starting from the early glossy interval to the present.

The colour of Liberty addresses 4 significant issues: the evolution of race as an concept in France; representations of "the different" in French literature, paintings, executive, and alternate; the overseas dimensions of French racial considering, really relating to colonialism; and the influence of racial changes at the shaping of the trendy French urban. the numerous variations of race in French history—as assigned identification, buyer product icon, medical discourse, philosophical challenge, derivative of migration, or instrument in empire building—here obtain nuanced remedies confronting the malleability of principles approximately race and the makes use of to which they've been put.

Contributors. Leora Auslander, Claude Blanckaert, Alice Conklin, Fred consistent, 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

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