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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saada, Emmanuelle (Autor)
Otros Autores: Goldhammer, Arthur (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Temas:
Racially mixed people > France > Colonies > History.
Racially mixed people > France > Legal status, laws, etc. > Colonies > History.
Citizenship > France > Colonies > History.
Miscegenation > France > Colonies > History.
Métissage > France > Colonies > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
French colonies
France > Colonies > Ethnic relations > History.
France > Colonies > Relations interethniques > Histoire.
France
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Frederick Cooper
  • Introduction
  • Le métissage: a colonial social problem
  • An imperial question
  • A threat to the colonial order
  • "Reclassifying" the métis
  • The law takes up the "métis question"
  • Nationality and citizenship in the colonial situation
  • The controversy over "fraudulent recognitions"
  • Investigating paternity in the colonies
  • Citizens by virtue of race
  • The force of law
  • The effects of citizenship
  • Identities under the law
  • French nationality and citizenship reconsidered
  • Conclusion.

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