Five French Negro Authors
Author : Mercer Cook
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1943
Category : African American authors
ISBN :
Author : Mercer Cook
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1943
Category : African American authors
ISBN :
Author : Shelby T. McCloy
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0813182093
This historical study examines the black experience in Metropolitan France from the 1600s to 1960. Shelby T. McCloy explores the literary and cultural contributions of people of color to French society—from Alexandre Dumas to Rene Maran—and charts their political ascension.
Author : Michel Fabre
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252063640
This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre (The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulattos with inheritances from French slave-owners sent their children to Paris to be educated. The book concludes that acceptance and appreciation of black Americans were based largely of French distaste both for white Americans, whom the French found egotistical, and for black Africans, with whom the French had a bitter "mutual colonial history."
Author : Trica Danielle Keaton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0822352621
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness.
Author : Lilyan Kesteloot
Publisher : Philadelphia : Temple University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Sara E. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520271122
This book explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). It examines the migration of people, ideas, and practices across imperial boundaries and traces expressions of both aesthetic and experiential transcolonial black politics across the Caribbean world, including Hispaniola, Louisiana and the Gulf South, Jamaica, and Cuba. It looks at the lives and work of figures as diverse as armed black soldiers and privateers, female performers, and newspaper editors to argue for the existence of "competing inter-Americanisms"to uncover the struggle for unity amidst the realities of class, territorial, and linguistic diversity.
Author : William Gardner Smith
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681375168
A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.
Author : Tyler Stovall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2012
Category : African American
ISBN : 9781469909066
Originally published in 1996 by Houghton Mifflin.
Author : Shelby T. McCloy
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 081316396X
In the research for his book on the opportunities of the black population in Metropolitan France, Shelby T. McCloy found the treatment accorded to people of color in the French colonies so significantly different as to warrant a separate book. This historical study examines the black experience in the French West Indies -- the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Santo Domingo -- from the days of slavery and the brutal Code Noir through struggle and revolution to freedom. McCloy provides a detailed account of the black popluation's increasingly important place in the islands from early in the seventeenth century to 1960.
Author : J.A. Rogers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 1996-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0684815826
Collects biographies of outstanding Blacks from all over the world, from Marcus Garvey to Akhenaton.