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Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism (African Expressive Cultures)

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Written in English, this book describes the experience of Negroes in France. The reader gets to appreciate the complexity of the legacies of history overlaid on a modern society. One of these can be appreciated by many Americans - slavery. Many French colonies in Africa had slavery, and Frenchmen transported slaves to the Caribbean.

The book describes how Negroes have been depicted in French novels; perhaps often stereotyped. There are issues about francocentrism, where a Negro might completely adopt French culture and language, in order to be accepted.

Another complexity is feminism. Black females in France might have several aspects of identity, where sometimes these might conflict.

The book tends to dwell more on literary or cultural issues. It has little in the way of economic or statistical analysis on subjects like discrimination in employment, education or housing.