By Crystal Marie Fleming

ISBN-10: 1439914087

ISBN-13: 9781439914083

ISBN-10: 1439914095

ISBN-13: 9781439914090

How can politicians and usual electorate face the racial previous in a rustic that frames itself as colorblind? In her well timed and provocative booklet, Resurrecting Slavery, Crystal Fleming indicates how humans make feel of slavery in a state the place speaking approximately race, colonialism, and slavery continues to be taboo. Noting how struggles over the that means of racial background are trained through modern politics of race, she asks: What types of workforce identities are at stake at the present time for activists and French individuals with ties to out of the country territories the place slavery took place?

Fleming investigates the connections and disconnections which are made among racism, slavery, and colonialism in France. She offers historic context and examines how politicians and commemorative activists interpret the racial prior and current. Resurrecting Slavery additionally comprises in-depth interviews with French Caribbean migrants open air the commemorative circulation to deal with the standard racial politics of remembrance.

Bringing a serious race viewpoint to the research of French racism, Fleming’s groundbreaking examine presents a extra nuanced knowing of race in France besides new methods of puzzling over the worldwide dimensions of slavery, anti-blackness, and white supremacy.

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