In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness.

This edited collection considers Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present.

African American soldiers, writers, performers, and activists influenced French society. Blacks in Paris: African American Culture in Europe explores the legacy of African Americans in Paris.

"Paris Noir fills a grievous gap in the absorbing chronicle of American expatriates who chose to live in Paris in the twentieth century.

The book concludes that acceptance and appreciation of black Americans were based largely of French distaste both for white Americans, whom the French found egotistical, and for black Africans, with whom the French had a bitter "mutual ...

Who is French? Who is an immigrant? Who controls the networks of production? Black France poses an urgently needed reassessment of the French colonial legacy.

Bricktop's Paris introduces the reader to twenty-five of these women and the city they encountered.

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.

As Trica Keaton notes, in everyday life, France is anything but raceblind.

This beautifully written book reclaims World War I as a critical moment in the freedom struggle and places African Americans at the crossroads of social, military, and international history.