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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel Jean-BaptisteSeries:African Identities: Past and PresentPublish date:2023-06-08Pages:292
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108489041ISBN-10:1108489044UPC:9781108489041Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AfricaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SC8YVV9XTC
Despite increasingly hardened visions of racial difference in colonial governance in French Africa after World War I, interracial sexual relationships persisted, resulting in the births of thousands of children. These children, mostly born to African women and European men, sparked significant debate in French society about the status of multiracial people, debates historians have termed 'the métis problem.' Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research in Gabon, Republic of Congo, Senegal, and France, Rachel Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of métis. Crucially, she centres claims by métis themselves to access French social and citizenship rights amidst the refusal by fathers to recognize their lineage, and in the context of changing African racial thought and practice. In this original history of race-making, belonging, and rights, Jean-Baptiste demonstrates the diverse ways in which métis individuals and collectives carved out visions of racial belonging as children and citizens in Africa, Europe, and internationally.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108489041ISBN-10:1108489044UPC:9781108489041Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AfricaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SC8YVV9XTC
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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