The Color of Liberty

by Peabody, Sue; Stovall, Tyler; Constant, M. Fred (CON); Boulle, Pierre H. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822331179
• ISBN10: 0822331179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"'The French are not racists like the Americans!' 'But are they French racists?' All of us, both French and American observers, have been bedeviled by some variant of this exchange I once had about the homeland of universal equality. This collection of transatlantic essays is the first systematic sounding of the praxis of race in French history. The contributions by American, Caribbean, and European-French specialists are universally fascinating and smart. "The Color of Liberty" is now the best thing on the subject in any language. We need it."--Herman Lebovics, author of "True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword	ix
Fred Constant
Introduction: Race, France, Histories	1	(10)
Sue Peabody
Tyler Stovall
Race: The Evolution of an Idea
Francois Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race	11	(17)
Pierre H. Boulle
Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbe Gregoire	28	(14)
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Of Monstrous Metis? Hybridity, Fear of Miscegenation, and Patriotism from Buffon to Paul Broca	42	(31)
Claude Blanckaert
Representations of the Other
Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti's Failed Foundational Fiction: La mulatre comme il y a peu de blanches (1803)	73	(22)
John Garrigus
Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles	95	(13)
Laurent Dubois
Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhais and Lucienne Favre	108	(23)
Patricia M. E. Lorcin
French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic	131	(16)
Dana S. Hale
Sambo in Paris: Race and Racism in the Iconography of the Everyday	147	(40)
Leora Auslander
Thomas C. Holt
Colonial and Global Perspectives
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racism in Colonial Indochine	187	(19)
Michael G. Vann
Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830--1920	206	(31)
Richard Fogarty
Michael A. Osborne
Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere	237	(22)
Gary Wilder
Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics	259	(26)
Dennis McEnnerney
Race and the Postcolonial City
Identity under Construction: Representing the Colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889	285	(17)
Lynn E. Palermo
Who Speaks for Africa? The Rene Maran--Blaise Diagne Trial in 1920s Paris	302	(36)
Alice L. Conklin
Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects: Working-Class Militancy and Racial Difference in Postwar Marseille	338	(13)
Yael Simpson Fletcher
From Red Belt to Black Belt: Race, Class, and Urban Marginality in Twentieth-Century Paris	351	(20)
Tyler Stovall
Contributors	371	(6)
Index	377