{"id":6964,"date":"2010-05-04T00:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T00:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:37:44","slug":"children-of-the-french-empire-miscegenation-and-colonial-society-in-french-west-africa-1895-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6964","title":{"rendered":"Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/HistoryWorld\/Africa\/?view=usa&amp;sf=toc&amp;ci=9780198208198\" target=\"_blank\">Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford University Press<\/a><br \/>\n1999<br \/>\n216 pages<br \/>\nHardback ISBN13: 9780198208198; ISBN10: 0198208197<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.udel.edu\/History\/bio\/white_owen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Owen White<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Delaware<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/HistoryWorld\/Africa\/?view=usa&amp;sf=toc&amp;ci=9780198208198\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/615kIagvuhL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/France\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> colonized much of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">West Africa<\/a> towards the end of the 19th century, until independence in 1960. Set within the context of the history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> in colonial <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_West_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">French West Africa<\/a>, the study focuses upon the lives and identities of the resulting mixed-race or m\u00e9tis population, and their struggle to overcome the handicaps they faced in a racially divided society. This author has drawn an evaluation of the impact and importance of French racial theories, and offers a critical discussion of colonial policies in such areas as citizenship and education, providing insights into problems of identity in colonial society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Abbreviations<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Map of French West Africa and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Togo\" target=\"_blank\">Togo<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nIntroduction<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">Miscegenation<\/a> in French West Africa<br \/>\n2. Abandonment and Intervention<br \/>\n3. Education and Employment<br \/>\n4. Race and Heredity<br \/>\n5. Paternity and the Mother Country<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9tis<\/a> and the Search for Social Identity<br \/>\nConclusion<br \/>\n<em>Bibliography<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Index<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the 19th century, until independence in 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,11,459,125,8,17],"tags":[96,2894,342,1294],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-france","tag-owen-white","tag-oxford-university-press","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52892,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/52892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}