Foreword. Black . . . A Color? A Kaleidoscope! / Christiane Taubira  ix

Acknowledgments  xv

Introduction. Blackness Matters, Blackness Made to Matter / Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall  1

Part I. Theorizing and Narrating Blackness and Beloning  

Black France: Myth or Reality?: Problems of Identity and Identification / Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi  17

The Lost Territories of the Republic: Historical Narratives and the Recomposition of French Citizenship / Mamadou Diouf  32

Eurafrique as the Future Past of Black France: Sarkozy's Temporal Confusion and Senghor's Postwar Vision / Gary Wilder  57

Letter to France / Alain Mabanckou  88

French Impressionism / Jake Lamar  96

Part II. The Politics of Blackness—Politicizing Blackness  

The Invention of Blacks in France / Patrick Lozès  103

Immigration and National Identity in France / Dominic Thomas  110

"Black France" and the National Identity Debate: How Best to Be Black and French? / Fred Constant  123

Paint It "Black": How Africans and Afro-Caribbeans Became "Black" in France / Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga  145

The "Question of Blackness" and the Memory of Slavery: Invisibility and Forgetting as Voluntary Fire and Some Pyromaniac Firefighters / Michel Giraud  173

Part III. Black Paris—Black France  

The New Negro in Paris: Booker T. Washington, the New Negro, and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Marcus Bruce  207

The Militant Black Men of Marseille and Paris, 1927–1937 / Jennifer Boittin  221

Reflections on the Future of Black France: Josephine Baker's Vision of a Global Village / Bennetta Jules-Rosette  247

Site-ing Black Paris: Discourses and the Making of Identities / Arlette Frund  269

Coda: Black Identity in France in a European Perspective / Allison Blakely  287

About the Contributors  307

Index  311

Christiane Taubira

Trica Danielle Keaton

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Tyler Stovall

Mamadou Diouf

Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi

Gary Wilder

Alain Mabanckou

Jake Lamar

Patrick Lozès

Dominic Thomas

Fred Constant

Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga

Michel Giraud

Marcus Bruce

Jennifer Anne Boittin

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Arlette Frund

Allison Blakely

“Black France/France Noire is a must read for any serious scholar of Black French Studies, or indeed, of Black European Studies. This text could also be successfully employed in undergraduate and graduate seminars.” —Julin Everett, Contemporary French Civilization

“Black France/France Noire is a must read for any serious scholar of Black French Studies, or indeed, of Black European Studies. This text could also be successfully employed in undergraduate and graduate seminars.” —Julin Everett, Contemporary French Civilization

"Black France / France Noire is the most comprehensive and urgent anthology regarding the questions of citizenship and belonging in France since Pierre Bourdieu's The Weight of the World. There's also a salutary combination of scholarly and personal narratives in this book, which elevates it to the stature of a groundbreaking manifesto, the controversial nature of which will be discussed for years to come."—Manthia Diawara, author of African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics

"In Black France / France Noire, leading thinkers and intellectuals raise challenging questions about how France's history of slavery and colonization, and immigration from its former colonies, are shaping the important, increasingly public discourse about blackness and racism."—Valérie K. Orlando, author of Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition

"Black skin may be officially invisible to France's government bureaucrats, statistics-gatherers, and devotees of French republicanism, but as a lived experience, blackness in France is very real. People of color routinely endure discrimination and find it difficult to gain full acceptance as French. Race matters in France, and the more that people talk and write about it, the more salient a social and political phenomenon race and racism in 'color-blind' France becomes. Black France / France Noire makes a major contribution by directly addressing experiences of blackness and anti-blackness in France."—Edward Berenson, author of Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa

"Black France / France Noire is the most recent and best record of an ongoing and important international scholarly conversation on issues of color, race, ethnicity, exclusion, and belonging. With essays by both French and American scholars, the collection addresses some deeply challenging questions about how prejudice manifests itself in French life. Some of the French contributors are hesitant to employ ethnic categories, as is the case in the United States, as ways to speak of identity, justice, and injustice in French society. But most of them realize that to eliminate color prejudice in France they must talk about color. This collection is essential reading for scholars who study France, Europe, and the politics of racial discourse more broadly."—Herman Lebovics, author of Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies

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