Métissage in France: a postmodern fantasy and its forgotten predecents
Increasingly in the last decade France has defined its identity in terms of mixity. Its new vocation as a land of métissage is associated with the 'black, blanc, beur' theme of mixed identity. While the old ideal of the universalism of French values is now largely discredited, multicultura...
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2003
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| description | Increasingly in the last decade France has defined its identity in terms of mixity. Its new vocation as a land of métissage is associated with the 'black, blanc, beur' theme of mixed identity. While the old ideal of the universalism of French values is now largely discredited, multiculturalism generally retains a negative association for the French: métissage, instead, is held up as a new ideal, indeed a new universal value. This article comments on the newly fashionable status of métissage by reading it in the context of the older, nightmare vision of racial mixing that dominated from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Despite this essentially negative view there were, it is suggested, some precedents for the current attempt at a political recuperation of métissage. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:c2a7f037-5bc1-4c7a-bcb3-e3261910f92c2022-03-27T06:10:30ZMétissage in France: a postmodern fantasy and its forgotten predecentsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c2a7f037-5bc1-4c7a-bcb3-e3261910f92cModern Britain and EuropeEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetCarfax Publishing2003Yee, JAssociation for the Study of Modern & Contemporary FranceIncreasingly in the last decade France has defined its identity in terms of mixity. Its new vocation as a land of métissage is associated with the 'black, blanc, beur' theme of mixed identity. While the old ideal of the universalism of French values is now largely discredited, multiculturalism generally retains a negative association for the French: métissage, instead, is held up as a new ideal, indeed a new universal value. This article comments on the newly fashionable status of métissage by reading it in the context of the older, nightmare vision of racial mixing that dominated from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Despite this essentially negative view there were, it is suggested, some precedents for the current attempt at a political recuperation of métissage. |
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| title | Métissage in France: a postmodern fantasy and its forgotten predecents |
| title_full | Métissage in France: a postmodern fantasy and its forgotten predecents |
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