Decolonizing the Republic

Félix F. Germain is an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Contents Foreword, Patrick Manning Preface Introduction Chapter One. Black Internationalism and Student Activism in Paris of the Fifties Chapter Two. African Migration to Paris of the Sixties Chapter Three. French Documentaries and the Representation of African Experiences Chapter Four. Work, Housing, Colonial Relations, and the Formation of Oppositional Identities among Working-Class African Workers Chapter Five. Caribbean Women in Postwar France, 1946–1974 Chapter Six. Henri Salvador’s Music and Working-Class Caribbean Males in Paris of the Sixties Chapter Seven. French Labor Unions, Black Community and Political Activism, and Decolonization in Postcolonial Paris, 1960–1974 Chapter Eight. May ’68 in Black Chapter Nine. Music, Le Pen, and “New” Black Activism in Contemporary France, 1974–2005 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

“With Decolonizing the Republic, Félix Germain offers the reader a meticulously researched historical meditation on immigration, labor politics, social organizing, and music in the continuing evolution of Black identities across the spectrums of color, class, and nationality in the postwar period in France. In parsing these intersecting phenomena along with the ideals of French Republicanism, Germain ably demonstrates the praxis of a twenty-first century French Pan-African consciousness.”—T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University