A brand new version of Silyane Larcher’s L’Autre citoyen: L’idéal républicain et les Antilles après l’esclavage [The Other Citizen: The Republican Ideal and the West Indies after Slavery] was printed final summer time (July 2022) by Éditions Factors. [The first edition was published by Armand Colin in 2014.]
Description: When slavery was abolished in 1848, below the Second Republic, greater than 250,000 slaves within the French colonies had been free of chains. If these of the West Indies, Guyana, and Reunion had been endowed with the identical civil and political rights as all (male) residents of the metropolis, these colonized residents had been for a very long time subjected to an distinctive regime. How was this paradoxical authorized situation based, organized, and skilled in a nation based for the reason that Revolution on a citizenship reputed to be “universalist and summary”? This e-book examines this query by taking over the historical past of French citizenship from its Caribbean colonial margins from the revolutionary interval to the tip of the nineteenth century. The writer invitations us to meditate on the advanced foundations of the articulation between citizenship, social query, historical past, and race within the French context.
Silyane Larcher: Thinker and historic and political sociologist, born and raised in Martinique, Silyane Larcher is a tenured analysis scholar in political sciences on the CNRS (French Nationwide Middle for Scientific Analysis). She was additionally a member of the Hutchins Middle for African and African-American Analysis at Harvard College for the 2021-2022 tutorial yr. Larcher is now engaged on her new e-book, Afrofeminist Utopia. Fulfilling oneself whereas going through assimilationist racism in France.
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