Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960

by Owen White

Overview

This book vividly recreates the lives and identities of the children born of relationships between French men and African women in colonial French West Africa. It shows how colonial policies and attitudes influenced the lives of this mixed-race population and analyzes their responses to living in a racially divided society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198208198
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/16/2000
Series:	Oxford Historical Monographs
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)

About the Author

University College, Oxford

Table of Contents

AbbreviationsMap of French West Africa and TogoIntroduction1. Miscegenation in French West Africa2. Abandonment and Intervention3. Education and Employment4. Race and Heredity5. Paternity and the Mother Country6. Métis and the Search for Social IdentityConclusionBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

This is a first-rate contribution to the study of colonialism. And since the contested notions of Frenchness which it documents are still being debated in France today, as well as being echoed by many other countries' "cricket-test" style controversies, the book will also interest thise concerned with matters of race, ethnicity and nationgood in our own turbulent post-colonial age.
—Times Literary Supplement

Susan Bayly