Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940

by Dana S. Hale

While European commerce in race was substantial, the colonial trade in ideas of race was highly profitable as well. Looking at official propaganda and commercial representations in France during the Third Republic, this book explores the way the French increased the value of their racial identity at home at the expense of their colonized brothers and sisters. The French did not create the identity-effacing stereotypes of Africans, Arabs, and Indochinese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253218993
• ISBN13: 9780253218995
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"