France and Post-Racial Utopia I & II

Editors: Roger Célestin, Eliane DalMolin

Guest Co-Editors: Audrey Brunetaux, Lam-Thao Nguyen

 

 

Editors’ Introduction

Post-Racial Paradox?

Audrey Brunetaux and Mame-Fatou Niang

 

Articles

I. Invisibilization & Representation

INNOCENCE, IGNORANCE ET ARROGANCE : LES TROIS GRÂCES DE L’ANTI-NOIRITÉ EN FRANCE

Mame-Fatou Niang

 

OMAR SY, LE NOUVEAU « Y’A BON BANANIA » OU LE SYMBOLE D’UNE FRANCE HEXAGONALE POST-RACIALE ?

David Yesaya

 

WHAT THE CHLORDECONE POLLUTION SAYS ABOUT MODES OF INHABITING THE WORLD: EXAMINING THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIO-RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN TROPIQUES TOXIQUES BY JESSICA OUBLIÉ ET AL.

Jennifer Boum Make

 

LISTENING FOR THE NON-DITS OF A POST-RACIAL UTOPIA IN STORIES OF KINSHIP AND INTIMACY

Jennifer Anne Boittin

 

II. Universalist Defense Mechanisms

FRANCE AND POST-RACIAL UTOPIA

Jean Beaman

 

WHITE ATLANTIC: COUNTERFEITING RACE IN FRANCE

Dorian Bell

 

FRENCH FEARS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANIZATION IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Félix Germain

 

WHO’S AFRAID OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES?

Alain Mabanckou and Dominic Thomas

 

III. Becoming Visible

TOUT SIMPLEMENT NOIR: SIMPLY PARODY OR COMPLEX PARADOX IN FRANCE’S (POST)RACIAL UTOPIA?

Jacqueline Dutton

 

HOODWINKING THE RÉPUBLIQUE: LUPIN AND THE ILLUSION OF FRENCH UNIVERSALISM

Renée Gosson

 

DECOLONIZING THE EAR: ECHOLOCATING “RACE” IN FRENCH RAP MUSIC

Giulia Champion

 

GIRLHOOD THROUGH A GLASS QUEERLY

Thomas Muzart