Tag: France

  • ‘The Black Count,’ A Hero On The Field, And The Page Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2012-09-15 Scott Simon, Host Tom Reiss, Author The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss, 432 pp. Crown Publishers. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7. Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the…

  • Hopes Spring Eternal: ‘Three Strong Women,’ by Marie NDiaye The New York Times 2012-08-10 Fernanda Eberstadt Americans have a curiously limited vision of France. We may be wild about Chanel sunglasses, Vuitton handbags, Champagne or Paris in the spring, but when it comes to the kinds of contemporary French culture that can’t be bought in…

  • Le Mélange of Francophone Culture in William Wells Brown’s Clotel The Undergraduate Review Volume 7, Issue 1 (2011) pages 8-11 Sandra Andrade Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts In Clotel; Or, The President’s Daughter, William Wells Brown argues that for fugitive African American slaves France represented freedom. This connection between African Americans and France that is…

  • Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…

  • Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese cases Oxford University The Oxford Diasporas Programme 2011-01-01 through 2015-12-31 Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Oxford Diaspora Programme Research Fellow, African Studies Centre Junior Research Fellow St Anne’s College, University of Oxford The Oxford Diasporas Programme is a five-year research programme involving various centres at the University of Oxford and…

  • Alexandre Dumas, author of “The Three Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” and “The Man in the Iron Mask,” is the most famous French writer of the nineteenth century. In 2002, his remains were transferred to the Panthéon, a mausoleum reserved for the greatest French citizens, amidst much national hype during his bicentennial.

  • Half-Blood Blues Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) 2011-09-03 304 pages 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in Cloth ISBN:9780887627415 Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 9781250012708 Esi Edugyan Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Paris, 1940.  A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again.  He is twenty years old.  He is a…

  • Redrawing the Color Line: Gender and the Social Construction of Race in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti Journal of Caribbean History Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2 (1996) pages 28-50 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin This article examines the social and political construction of race in French colonial Saint-Domingue. After 1763 white…

  • Hybrid Zones: Representations of Race in Late Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture University of Kansas April 2011 358 pages Publication Number: AAT 3456911 ISBN: 9781124667348 Rozanne McGrew Stringer In this study, I examine images of the black female and black male body and the female Spanish Gypsy by four artists—Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Frédéric Bazille, and…

  • New Christians/’New Whites’: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789 Chapter (pages 314-332) in: The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 Berghahn Books 2001 592 pages Pb ISBN 978-1-57181-430-2; Hb ISBN 978-1-57181-153-0 Edited by: Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering Chapter Author: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor…