Empire's children : race, filiation, and citizenship in the French colonies /
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 pers...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Frederick Cooper
- Introduction
- Le métissage: a colonial social problem
- An imperial question
- A threat to the colonial order
- "Reclassifying" the métis
- The law takes up the "métis question"
- Nationality and citizenship in the colonial situation
- The controversy over "fraudulent recognitions"
- Investigating paternity in the colonies
- Citizens by virtue of race
- The force of law
- The effects of citizenship
- Identities under the law
- French nationality and citizenship reconsidered
- Conclusion.
