The French encounter with Africans : white response to Blacks, 1530-1880
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The French encounter with Africans : white response to Blacks, 1530-1880
Indiana University Press, 2003, c1980
1st pbk. ed. / foreword by James D. Le Sueur
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-351) and index
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Description
"As French and American historians of France are revisiting the history of French racism today, William B. Cohen's book is more important than ever. It has become a classic." -Nancy L. Green
In this pioneering work, William B. Cohen traces the ways in which negative attitudes toward blacks became deeply embedded in French culture. Examining the forces that shaped these views, Cohen reveals the persistent inequality of French interactions with blacks in Africa, in the slave colonies of the West Indies, and in France itself. Now a classic, The French Encounter with Africans is essential reading for anyone engaged in current discussions of European relations with non-Europeans and with issues of racism, ethnicity, identity, colonialism, and empire.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents:
Foreword James D. LeSueur
Preface
Introduction
1. The Impulse ot Inequality
2. The Establishment of Slave Societies
3. The Philosophes and Africa
4. Three Patterns of Interaction: West Indies, France, and Senegal
5. The Issue of Slavery
6. The Rise of Imperialism
7. The Nineteenth Century Confronts Slavery
8. Scientific Racism
9. The Lure of Empire
Afterword
Notes
Index
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