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Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950
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Winner of the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize
Desiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Empire. Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has served to reinforce two myths about modern France—first, that it is a sexual democracy and second, it is a color-blind nation where all French citizens can freely marry whomever they wish regardless of their race. Caroline Séquin challen...
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