Search Results for race relations in France

... impasse in which early-twenty-first-century France finds itself. In tandem with the analysis of Césaire's essays, the essay examines French justice minister Christiane Taubira's published writings and legislative work as evidence of her related efforts to recast cultural specificity as a source...

... Studies in the Future Tense (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010). 29 Maxime Cervulle, “The Uses of Universalism: ‘Diversity Statistics’ and the Race Issue in Contemporary France,” European Journal of Cultural Studies 17, no. 2 (2013): 118–33. In May 2013, France adopted a law proscribing...

... and the 1980s and were often borrowed from other languages. The way the terms have been and continue to be used illustrates France’s complicated and shifting relation to people of African descent, notably within its own population. In the context of culture wars that have been shaking the country in the past...

... the triangular space France–Africa–Antilles) expands as Césaire experiences Europe’s periphery. The Yugoslav detour encourages him to think about oppression comparatively in relation to marginalized places that exist beyond the triangle, like the Balkans. When in the Notebook Césaire speaks about “those who...

... with other (arbitrary) categories of meaning rather than with “real” or “natural” differences. His was a crucial inter- vention for future Caribbean and postcolonial thought insofar as it dislodged race from its plinth of fixity and made it available—as a relational paradigm...

... in the white man’s hands; so, in order to shatter the hellish cycle, he explodes” (140).9 In his discussions of the parallels between popular discussions of race in France and the United States, Fanon traces the exportation of New World racial sensibilities, forged in the history...

... Black French women race relations in France Does citizenship equal Black liberation and decolonization? This is one of the questions that Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire raises as the author explores different roles...

... relations within which France and Frenchness can situate themselves as exceptional entities transcending history while claiming unimpeachable universality: “The center relegated to the midst of other centers, it is the formation of a constellation that we witness, where language...

... in economic privilege, currying political favor in Paris, and looking to that capital rather than to Fort-de-France as their political home. 48 In the film's most controversial scene, octogenarian Alain Huygues-Despointes observes that in mixed-race families “il n'y a pas d'harmonie, je ne trouve pas ça...

... exists under patriarchy where discourses on gender relations intersect with race and class due to the history of colonial, racialized, and gendered hierarchy. 35 Heteronormative ideologies on race, gender, and sexuality are governed by what numerous French Caribbean scholars such as Françoise...

... women and subsumed women of color to normative white feminist concepts of suffrage and liberation. Demonstrating that nineteenth-century black women such as Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells, among others, confronted the domestic ideology of white womanhood, Carby...

... brutality related to religious fanaticism as exemplifi ed by the Inquisition and the bloody Protestant-Catholic confl icts in France Firmin signals that “intelligent travelers” had conceded that Africans possessed much more complex religious ideas than the mere worshiping of fetishes Some authors...

... include Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance (1999); Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought (2002); and The Sense of Com- munity in French Caribbean Fiction (2008). She has also coedited an issue of Paragraph titled “Francophone...

... have avenged America.”1 With these words, proclaimed on 28 April 1804, just months after declaring Haiti’s independence from France, Jean-Jacques Dessalines defended the recriminatory violence of the Haitian Revolution and articulated one of the earliest attestations of its world-historical...

... of independence itself. At both these conjunctures, the rhetoric of indigeneity foregrounded issues of sovereignty, making specific territorial claims on the basis of filiation while demanding the expulsion of others as foreign. At the same time, the term indigène more frequently designated a position in relation...

..., such a fixation means that the country is forever defined in relation to France. Condé’s writ- ings directly challenge this singular relationship between France and Guadeloupe, and she consistently places her Caribbean homeland within a wider context. Moreover, in her work she does not confine herself...

... a slender booklet of less than thirty pages was published in France and very quickly became something of a cause célèbre. Indignez-vous! was written by Stéphane Hessel, who at ninety-three years old felt he had some unvarnished truths about the state of our common humanity to pass on to a younger...

... relation, since they are not temporally stable or static, neither inside nor out. In other words, Désinore and Xantippe perform their race and class. In so doing, meaning is attached to the actors, their gestures, and their mode of being, and that meaning is specifically tailored to challenge...

...Martin Munro The Littérature-monde manifesto, published in 2007, seems to announce a new era for writing in French from non-metropolitan regions. It moreover suggests that this moment marks a “Copernican revolution” in the literary history of France and the French-speaking world. This article...

... thing of ours sky-high it still wouldn't take much still not much not much so that at last one day everything'd go everything'd go go in the direction of our own race our own race. 54 In that “not much” resides everything: a reversal of perspective and power relations, and a consequent end...