1st Edition

Black Skins, French Voices Caribbean Ethnicity And Activism In Urban France

By David Beriss Copyright 2004
    180 Pages
    by Routledge

    180 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is about the choices black French citizens make when they move from Martinique and Guadeloupe to Paris and discover that they are not fully French. It shows how ethnic activists in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora organize to demand what has never been available to them in France.

    Series Editor Preface -- Introduction -- Finding Creole Identities in Martinique and Paris -- What is the Price of Frenchness? -- Betrayed Antilles, Broken French Promises -- Boudin, Rhum, and Zouk: Performance and Cultural Confrontation -- Gan Magic Fix A Broken Culture? -- In This World, But Not of it -- Conclusion: Creolizing France

    Biography

    Beriss, David