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- Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series
summary
Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848–2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France. In addition to delineating the powerful contributions of black French women in the struggle for equality, contributors also look at the experiences of African American women in Paris and in so doing integrate into colonial and postcolonial conversations the strategies black women have engaged in negotiating gender and race relations à la française.
Drawing on research by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collection offers a fresh, multidimensional perspective on race, class, and gender relations in France and its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation from slavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Drawing on research by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collection offers a fresh, multidimensional perspective on race, class, and gender relations in France and its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation from slavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Introduction: Marianne Is Also Black
- pp. xi-xx
- Part 5: Black Women Critique the “Empire”
- pp. 199-200
- Contributors
- pp. 255-260
Additional Information
ISBN
9781496210371
Related ISBN(s)
9781496201270
MARC Record
OCLC
1050110497
Pages
294
Launched on MUSE
2018-10-09
Language
English
Open Access
No