The Politics of Blackness and Citizenship in Post-1980s France
In France, since race is constitutionally and legally not recognized as a category, Blackness and Frenchness remain approached as mutually exclusive categories. The term “Noir,” the linguistic equivalent of the term “Black” in English, is not compatible with the French national identity. It is not a...
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ftlondonacadpubl:oai:ojs2.journals.lapub.co.uk:article/2471 2023-05-15T18:12:05+02:00 The Politics of Blackness and Citizenship in Post-1980s France Dieng, Omar 2023-01-08 application/pdf https://journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/HB/article/view/2471 eng eng London Academic Publishing https://journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/HB/article/view/2471/1690 https://journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/HB/article/view/2471 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC-BY-SA Humanities Bulletin; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2022): Humanities Bulletin; 197-212 2517-4266 World Literature Negritude National Identity Blackness Citizenship Race Culture info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2023 ftlondonacadpubl 2023-01-09T18:25:22Z In France, since race is constitutionally and legally not recognized as a category, Blackness and Frenchness remain approached as mutually exclusive categories. The term “Noir,” the linguistic equivalent of the term “Black” in English, is not compatible with the French national identity. It is not as common as a means of identification as the term “Black” is in the United States. The status quo that the French Republican universalism established makes identifying with term “Noir” self-isolating and “communautariste”. Despite the huge Black population in France, “France Noire” or “Black France” is still mentioned with critical interrogation (Mudimbe-Boyi 2012, 27). In this article, I use Sami Tchak’s Place des Fêtes (2001) and Rokhaya Diallo’s activist voice to examine how French-born children of immigrants claim belonging in their land of birth. In doing so, I reflect on their relationship with both Africa (Africanness) and France (Frenchness). Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami London Academic Publishing Ltd.: Arts & Humanities Journals Noire ENVELOPE(140.019,140.019,-66.666,-66.666) |
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In France, since race is constitutionally and legally not recognized as a category, Blackness and Frenchness remain approached as mutually exclusive categories. The term “Noir,” the linguistic equivalent of the term “Black” in English, is not compatible with the French national identity. It is not as common as a means of identification as the term “Black” is in the United States. The status quo that the French Republican universalism established makes identifying with term “Noir” self-isolating and “communautariste”. Despite the huge Black population in France, “France Noire” or “Black France” is still mentioned with critical interrogation (Mudimbe-Boyi 2012, 27). In this article, I use Sami Tchak’s Place des Fêtes (2001) and Rokhaya Diallo’s activist voice to examine how French-born children of immigrants claim belonging in their land of birth. In doing so, I reflect on their relationship with both Africa (Africanness) and France (Frenchness). |
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