Race on Display in 20th- and 21st Century France.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series ; v.42 .
- Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Note on Translations -- List of Figures and Note on Companion Website -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Civilized into the Civilizing Mission -- 2. Self-Spectacularization and Looking Back on French History -- 3. Writing, Literary Sape, and Reading in Mabanckou's Black Bazar -- 4. Looking Back on Afropea's Origins -- 5. Anti-White Racism without Races -- Outro. Looking Back, Moving Forward -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France argues that the way France displayed its colonized peoples in the twentieth century continues to inform how minority authors and artists make immigrants and racial and ethnic minority populations visible in contemporary France.