Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9781108489041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 292 str.

Davis) Jean-Baptiste Rachel (University of California

Opis

Explores the history of race-making, belonging, and rights by outlining the contested place of multiracial people in colonial French West and Equatorial Africa.

Recenzje

'This is a pathbreaking book that expands the history of childhood and race in Africa and rethinks our methods for studying intimacy and emotions. With case studies drawn from diverse archives, Jean-Baptiste combines a discussion of state welfare policy with attention to children's rights and considers colonial sexualities from the point of view of Africans.' Stephanie Newell, Yale University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Multiracial identities and the consolidation and subversion of racialized French colonial rule in French west and equatorial Africa, ca. 1900–1930; 2. Wards of the state: claiming and mediating colonial government welfare and French institutional care of multiracial children in the 1930s; 3. 'I am French': multiraciality and citizenship in FWA and FEA, ca. 1928–38; 4. 'Odd notions of race': reconfiguring rights of/to citizenship and children, 1939–ca. 1950; 5. The reconfiguration of maternal and child welfare in Dakar, 1949–1956: Nicolas Rigonaux and the Union of Eurafricans; 6. Multiracial internationalism: racial equality, universal rights, and just Eurafrican futures, 1957–1960; Epilogue.