Black Populations of France

Sylvain Pattieu is a lecturer in history at University of Paris 8. He is the author of several books written and published in French. Emmanuelle Sibeud is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris 8. She is the author of several books written and published in French. Tyler Stovall (1954–2021) was the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. He was the author of a number of books, including White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea.

• Introduction: The Black Populations of France: An Historical MosaicSylvain Pattieu, Emmanuelle Sibeud, Tyler Stovall Colonial France in Africa1. The Inopportune Citizenship of the Inhabitants of Sainte-Marie de Madagascar (1907-1949): An Imperial Contradiction?Emmanuelle Sibeud,2. Colonial Misappropriations of Trans-Saharan Legacies: Abid al-Bukhari andTirailleurs Sénégalais in Imperial and Colonial Morocco Sarah Zimmerman3. Returning from France after World War II: African Soldiers and the Reshaping of Colonial and Racial Categories in French West AfricaRuth Ginio Blacks in Metropolitan France4. Black Families in France (18th-19th Centuries): Some CasesPierre H. Boulle5. By Land or by Sea: “Marins Indigènes” and Maritime Economies of Race and LaborMinayo Nasiali6. “A Woman Like Any Other:” The Intimacy of Dislocation in Early Twentieth Century Paris and RufisqueJennifer Boittin7. BUMIDOM (Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’Outre-Mer), 1963-1982: Organizing Overseas Migrations to the Metropole, Actions and ContradictionsSylvain Pattieu The Politics of Race in France Today8. Contemporary French Caribbean PoliticsAudrey Célestine9. Racially Imprinted Bodies: The Black Feminine Press in Contemporary FranceSarah Fila-Bakabadio10 France in Noir and Black: Stereotypes and the Politics of the Recognition of Black PopulationsFranck F. Ekué11. Solidarity or Difference? African Americans and the Making of Black FranceTyler Stovall Conclusion: Towards a History of Black France, and a Black History of FranceContributorsIndex

"The broad scope, multidisciplinary sensibility, and archival rigor make The Black Populations of France a treasure-trove of innovative study and historiographic information. The book can be adopted for courses connected to Black Europe, France, colonization and decolonization, overseas territories, race, national identity and citizenship, and more."-Christy L. Pichichero, Journal of Modern History “A needed expansion and corrective to the history of France, whose long-standing and diverse Black populations remain insufficiently explored. The originality of this book also resides in its geographical reach, as it extends beyond the metropole to a vast overseas territorial divide. . . . At the same time [it elucidates] the temporal fluidity of race and Blackness in these geographies, which contradict and complicate France’s cherished ideals of universalism and citizenship.”-Trica Keaton, coeditor of Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness