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Author Germain, Félix F., author.

Title Decolonizing the Republic : African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946-1974 / Félix F. Germain.

Publication Info. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series
Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Black internationalism and student activism in Paris of the fifties -- Civilizing sick bodies : African migration to Paris of the sixties -- French documentaries and the representation of African experiences -- Work, housing, colonial relations, and the formation of oppositional identities among working-class African workers -- Jezebels and victims : West Indian women in postwar France (1946-1974) -- Different beats : Henri Salvador's music and working-class Caribbean males in Paris of the sixties -- Without French labor unions : black community and political activism and decolonization in postcolonial Paris (1960-1974) -- May '68 in black -- Diasporic encounters : music, Le Pen, and "new" black activism in contemporary France (1974-2005) -- Conclusion.
Summary Decolonizing the Republic is a conscientious discussion of the African diaspora in Paris in the post-World War II period. This book is the first to examine the intersection of black activism and the migration of Caribbeans and Africans to Paris during this era and, as Patrick Manning notes in the foreword, successfully shows how "black Parisians-in their daily labors, weekend celebrations, and periodic protests-opened the way to 'decolonizing the Republic, ' advancing the respect for their rights as citizens." Contrasted to earlier works focusing on the black intellectual elite, Decolonizing the Republic maps the formation of a working-class black France. Readers will better comprehend how those peoples of African descent who settled in France and fought to improve their socioeconomic conditions changed the French perception of Caribbean and African identity, laying the foundation for contemporary black activists to deploy a new politics of social inclusion across the demographics of race, class, gender, and nationality. This book complicates conventional understandings of decolonization, and in doing so opens a new and much-needed chapter in the history of the black Atlantic.
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Subject Africans -- France -- Paris.
Africans.
France -- Paris.
West Indians -- France -- Paris.
West Indians.
Paris (France) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Paris (France) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Immigrants -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
Immigrants.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Germain, Félix F. Decolonizing the Republic. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016] 9781611862041 (DLC) 2015033652 (OCoLC)920469695
ISBN 9781609174897 (electronic book)
1609174895 (electronic book)
9781611862041