Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.
Contents
Civilized into the civilizing mission: the gaze, colonization, and exposition coloniale children's comics -- Self-spectacularization and looking back on French history -- Writing, literary Sape, and reading in Mabanckou's Black Bazar -- Looking back on Afropea's Origins: Léonora Miano's Blues pour Elise as an Afropean mediascape -- Anti-white racism without races: French rap, whiteness, and disciplinary institutionalized spectacularism.
Summary
Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France argues that the way France displayed its colonized peoples in the twentieth century continues to inform how minority authors and artists make immigrants and racial and ethnic minority populations visible in contemporary France.
