Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016

Félix Germain, Silyane Larcher

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781496201270
• eBook ISBN:
  9781496210357
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: French History
• Index: History

Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848–2016 exploreshow black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experiencedand reacted toFrench colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonizationand of black France. In addition to delineatingthe powerful contributionsof black French women in the struggle for equality, contributors also look at the experiences of African American women in Paris and in so doing integrate into colonial and postcolonial conversations the strategies black women have engaged in negotiating genderand race relations à la française. Drawing on research byscholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collectionoffers a fresh, multidimensionalperspective on race, class, and gender relationsin Franceand its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation fromslavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part 1
• 1. Originaire Women and Political Life in Senegal’s Four Communes
• 2. Christiane Taubira, a Black Woman in Politics in French Guiana and in France
• 3. A Passion for Justice
• Part 2
• 4. French Caribbean Feminism in the Postdepartmentalization Era
• 5. The End of Silence
• 6. Gerty Archimède and the Struggle for Decolonial Citizenship in the French Antilles, 1946–51
• Part 3
• 7. A Black Woman’s Life in the Struggle
• 8. Am I My Sister’s Keeper?
• 9. Between Respectability and Resistance
• Part 4
• 10. Media and the Politics of “Re-presentation” of the Black Female Body
• 11. Shaking the Racial and Gender Foundations of France
• Part 5
• 12. Discourse on Immigration
• 13. Remapping the Metropolis
• 14. Social Imaginaries in Tension?
• Contributors
• Index
• About Félix Germain
• About Silyane Larcher
• Series List