The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France

Published by Duke University Press 2003

The Color of Liberty

Histories of Race in France

Edited by: Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall
With contributions by: M. Fred Constant and Pierre H. Boulle

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384700

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About this book

Traces the multiple histories of race and racial thinking over time in France and in Francophone areas of the globe.

Author / Editor information

Sue Peabody is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University Vancouver and the author of "There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime.

Tyler Stovall is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include France since the Second World War, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light, and The Rise of the Paris Red Belt.

Reviews

“‘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

“According to some observers, color-coded racism is an American problem that the French have, for the most part, managed to avoid. This fine collection of essays raises considerable doubt about that assumption. The authors show that race has been constructed somewhat differently in the two republics, but also demonstrate that the French, like the Americans, have often failed to live up to their own egalitarian principles when it came to relations with people whom they considered nonwhite.”—George M. Fredrickson, author of Racism: A Short History

“Enfin! Stovall and Peabody take up the call to place race at the center of French history and enlist a range of skilled scholars to show its tenacious filaments and deeply French roots. This volume gives substance to the diverse genealogies of racisms in the making of France while accounting for their troubling contemporary presence.”—Ann L. Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

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

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 400
Illustrations
- Other: 13 illustrations

eBook

Published: June 30, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384700