Black skins, French voices : Caribbean ethnicity and activism in urban France

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Black skins, French voices : Caribbean ethnicity and activism in urban France

David Beriss

(Westview case studies in anthropology)

Westview Press, c2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book is about the choices black French citizens make when they move from Martinique and Guadeloupe to Paris and discover that they are not fully French. It shows how ethnic activists in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora organize to demand what has never been available to them in France.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Preface -- Introduction -- Finding Creole Identities in Martinique and Paris -- What is the Price of Frenchness? -- Betrayed Antilles, Broken French Promises -- Boudin, Rhum, and Zouk: Performance and Cultural Confrontation -- Gan Magic Fix A Broken Culture? -- In This World, But Not of it -- Conclusion: Creolizing France

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  • NCID
    BA77253217
  • ISBN
    • 0813342546
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Boulder, Colo.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 156 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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