Jennifer Boittin
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BOOK
Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women's Defiance of French Colonial Policing. The University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2022).
Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Feminism and Anti-Imperialism in Interwar Paris. The University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln: 2010).
EDITED VOLUME
Special Issue of French Historical Studies: Intersections of Race and Gender in French History, 33, 3 (Summer 2010). Co-Editor and Introduction ("Who is French?") with Professor Tyler Stovall.
ARTICLES
“'The Great Game of Hide and Seek Has Worked': Suzanne Césaire, Cultural Marronnage, and a Caribbean Mosaic of Gendered Race Consciousness around World War II,” French Colonial History 20 (2021): 145-173.
"The Militant Black Men of Marseille and Paris, 1927-1937" in Black France/France noire: The History and Politics of Blackness, edited by Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tyler Stovall. Duke University Press (Durham, NC: June 2012).
Jennifer Boittin, Christina Firpo & Emily Musil Church, “Hierarchies of Race and Gender in the French Empire,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 37, 1 (2011): 60-90.
“Feminist Mediations of the Exotic: French Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, 1921-1939,” Gender & History 22, 1 (April 2010): 131-150.
“Black in France: The Language and Politics of Race during the Late Third Republic,” French Politics, Culture & Society 27, 2 (Summer 2009): 23-46.
“In Black and White: Gender, Race Relations and the Nardal Sisters in Interwar Paris,” French Colonial History
6 (2005): 119-135.
Address: Dept. of French & Francophone Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
BOOK
Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women's Defiance of French Colonial Policing. The University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2022).
Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Feminism and Anti-Imperialism in Interwar Paris. The University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln: 2010).
EDITED VOLUME
Special Issue of French Historical Studies: Intersections of Race and Gender in French History, 33, 3 (Summer 2010). Co-Editor and Introduction ("Who is French?") with Professor Tyler Stovall.
ARTICLES
“'The Great Game of Hide and Seek Has Worked': Suzanne Césaire, Cultural Marronnage, and a Caribbean Mosaic of Gendered Race Consciousness around World War II,” French Colonial History 20 (2021): 145-173.
"The Militant Black Men of Marseille and Paris, 1927-1937" in Black France/France noire: The History and Politics of Blackness, edited by Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tyler Stovall. Duke University Press (Durham, NC: June 2012).
Jennifer Boittin, Christina Firpo & Emily Musil Church, “Hierarchies of Race and Gender in the French Empire,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 37, 1 (2011): 60-90.
“Feminist Mediations of the Exotic: French Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, 1921-1939,” Gender & History 22, 1 (April 2010): 131-150.
“Black in France: The Language and Politics of Race during the Late Third Republic,” French Politics, Culture & Society 27, 2 (Summer 2009): 23-46.
“In Black and White: Gender, Race Relations and the Nardal Sisters in Interwar Paris,” French Colonial History
6 (2005): 119-135.
Address: Dept. of French & Francophone Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
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Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France’s colonial empire attracted denizens from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely their home but also a site for political engagement. Colonial Metropolis tells the story of the interactions and connections of these black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris. It explores why and how both were denied certain rights, such as the vote, how they suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as politically subversive.
People whose experiences are traced in this book include, among many others: Lamine Senghor, Tiémoko Garan Kouyaté, Josephine Baker, Jane, Paulette and Andrée Nardal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Denise Savineau Moran and Lucie Cousturier.
Table of Contents:
1. Josephine Baker: Colonial Woman
2. Dancing Dissidents & Dissident Dancers: The Urban Topography of Race
3. A Black Colony? Race and the Origins of Anti-Imperialism
4. Reverse Exoticism & Masculinity: The Cultural Politics of Race Relations
5. In Black & White: Women, La Dépêche Africaine, and the Print Culture of the Diaspora
6. “These Men’s Minor Transgressions”: White Frenchwomen on Colonialism and Feminism
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Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France’s colonial empire attracted denizens from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely their home but also a site for political engagement. Colonial Metropolis tells the story of the interactions and connections of these black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris. It explores why and how both were denied certain rights, such as the vote, how they suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as politically subversive.
People whose experiences are traced in this book include, among many others: Lamine Senghor, Tiémoko Garan Kouyaté, Josephine Baker, Jane, Paulette and Andrée Nardal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Denise Savineau Moran and Lucie Cousturier.
Table of Contents:
1. Josephine Baker: Colonial Woman
2. Dancing Dissidents & Dissident Dancers: The Urban Topography of Race
3. A Black Colony? Race and the Origins of Anti-Imperialism
4. Reverse Exoticism & Masculinity: The Cultural Politics of Race Relations
5. In Black & White: Women, La Dépêche Africaine, and the Print Culture of the Diaspora
6. “These Men’s Minor Transgressions”: White Frenchwomen on Colonialism and Feminism