Description: This edited collection considers Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present.
Review Quotes: "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