The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France

by Sue Peabody

France has long defined itself as a color-blind nation where racial bias has no place. Even today, the French universal curriculum for secondary students makes no mention of race or slavery, and many French scholars still resist addressing racial questions. Yet, as this groundbreaking volume shows, color and other racial markers have been major factors in French national life for more than three hundred years. The sixteen essays in The Color of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822331179
• ISBN13: 9780822331179
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"