Sylvain Pattieu is a lecturer in history at University of Paris 8. He is the author of several books written and published in French. Emmanuelle Sibeud is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris 8. She is the author of several books written and published in French. Tyler Stovall (1954–2021) was the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. He was the author of a number of books, including White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea.

Introduction: The Black Populations of France: An Historical Mosaic
Sylvain Pattieu, Emmanuelle Sibeud, Tyler Stovall

Colonial France in Africa
1. The Inopportune Citizenship of the Inhabitants of Sainte-Marie de Madagascar (1907-1949): An Imperial Contradiction?
Emmanuelle Sibeud,
2. Colonial Misappropriations of Trans-Saharan Legacies: Abid al-Bukhari and
Tirailleurs Sénégalais in Imperial and Colonial Morocco
Sarah Zimmerman
3. Returning from France after World War II: African Soldiers and the Reshaping of Colonial and Racial Categories in French West Africa
Ruth Ginio

Blacks in Metropolitan France
4. Black Families in France (18th-19th Centuries): Some Cases
Pierre H. Boulle
5. By Land or by Sea: “Marins Indigènes” and Maritime Economies of Race and Labor
Minayo Nasiali
6. “A Woman Like Any Other:” The Intimacy of Dislocation in Early Twentieth Century Paris and Rufisque
Jennifer Boittin
7. BUMIDOM (Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’Outre-Mer), 1963-1982: Organizing Overseas Migrations to the Metropole, Actions and Contradictions
Sylvain Pattieu

The Politics of Race in France Today
8. Contemporary French Caribbean Politics
Audrey Célestine
9. Racially Imprinted Bodies: The Black Feminine Press in Contemporary France
Sarah Fila-Bakabadio
10 France in Noir and Black: Stereotypes and the Politics of the Recognition of Black Populations
Franck F. Ekué
11. Solidarity or Difference? African Americans and the Making of Black France
Tyler Stovall

Conclusion: Towards a History of Black France, and a Black History of France
Contributors
Index