#You Know You're Black in France When...: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness
What does it mean to be racialized-as-black in France on a daily basis? #You Know You're Black in France When… responds to that question.
Under the banner of universalism, France messages a powerful and seductive ideology of blindness to race that disappears blackened people and the antiblackness they experience. In this groundbreaking study about everyday antiblackness and its refusal, France is anything but raceblind.
Praise
Once again, Trica Keaton proves that she is one of the most insightful observers of the contradictions that constitute France as a racial state.
This pathbreaking study marks the end of willingly ignoring knowledge of racism accumulated over generations of black experiences in France.
Rather than denouncing individualized racist interactions, Trica Keaton identifies the source of antiblackness in French universalist 'raceblind' republicanism. This is an important message to convey to public authorities and minority communities alike, and an important contribution to the scientific debate.