Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016

Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality,1848-2016exploreshow black women in France itself,the French Caribbean, GorÉe, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experiencedand reacted toFrench colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonizationand of black France. In addition to delineatingthe powerful contributionsof black French women in the struggle for equality,contributors also look at the experiences of African American women in Paris and in so doing integrate into colonial and postcolonial conversations the strategies black women have engaged in negotiating genderand race relations À la franÇaise. Drawing on research byscholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collectionoffers a fresh, multidimensionalperspective on race, class, and gender relationsin Franceand its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation fromslavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.