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Introduction: Race and the Aesthetic in French and Francophone Cultures
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 59, Number 2, Summer 2019
- pp. 1-11
- 10.1353/esp.2019.0012
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Abstract:
The introduction situates the relationship between race and the aesthetic in the context of the recent debates on the topic of race in France. It makes the case for a renewed attention to the aesthetic processes at work in the construction of racial identities. To this end, it proposes to investigate both how sense perception has been harnessed to facilitate racialization, and how racial categories have shaped aesthetic judgment.