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Empire's children : race, filiation, and citizenship in the French colonies /
Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of pers...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons of mixed parentage born in French Indochina-the métis-she found not only a remarkable artifact of colonial rule, but a legal bombshell that introduced race into French law for the first time. The decree was the culmination of a decades-long effort to resolve the "métis question": the education. |
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| Notas: | Originally published in French as Les enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l'Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226733098 0226733092 1280126396 9781280126390 9786613530257 6613530255 |