In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful ca

"[W]ithout a doubt one of the most important studies so far completed on literature in French grounded in the experiences of migrants of sub-Saharan African ori

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly

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