Empire's Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

by Emmanuelle Saada

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 m tis--she found not only a remarkable artifact of colonial rule, but a legal bombshell that introduced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226733076
• ISBN13: 9780226733074
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages