Contributors to this collection of essays demonstrate that blackness in France is less an identity than a response to and rejection of anti-black racism.
In this compelling volume, Tyler Stovall takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France, and by doing so draws the reader into a key aspect of France's political culture: universalism.
The book addresses: the evolution of French colonialism from Empire to Francophone Union changes in French cultural and intellectual life the challenge of the era of scarcity after 1973 immigration, racial conflict and the rise of the ...