Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Reproducing the French Race by Elisa Camiscioli Argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Camiscioli demonstrates that mass immigration provided politicians, jurists, industrialists, racial theorists, feminists, and others with ample opportunity to explore questions of French racial belonging, Frances relationship to the colonial empire and the rest of Europe, and the connections between race and national anxieties regarding depopulation and degeneration. She also shows that discussions of the nation and its citizenry consistently returned to the body: its color and gender, its expenditure of labor power, its reproductive capacity, and its experience of desire. Of paramount importance was the question of which kinds of bodies could assimilate into the "French race."By focusing on telling aspects of the immigration debate, Camiscioli reveals how racial hierarchies were constructed, how gender figured in their creation, and how only white Europeans were cast as assimilable. Delving into pronatalist politics, she describes how potential immigrants were ranked according to their imagined capacity to adapt to the workplace and family life in France. She traces the links between racialized categories and concerns about industrial skills and output, and she examines medico-hygienic texts on interracial sex, connecting those to the crusade against prostitution and the related campaign to abolish "white slavery," the alleged entrapment of (white) women for sale into prostitution abroad. Camiscioli also explores the debate surrounding the 1927 law that first made it possible for French women who married foreigners to keep their French nationality. She concludes by linking the Third Republics impulse to create racial hierarchies to the emergence of the Vichy regime. Notes Recasts the origins of French national identity by arguing that gender, race and reproductive practices were central to its construction Back Cover "Reproducing the French Raceskillfully traces underlying connections among immigration, gender, and national identity in interwar France, while fundamentally refiguring seemingly settled scholarship on pronatalism and labor rationalization by demonstrating the still under-recognized centrality of race to them. Elisa Camiscioli has written an accomplished and ambitious work that integrates issues typically treated separately into an innovative argument about embodiment that challenges conventional assumptions about French republicanism as essentially abstract and universal."-Gary Wilder, author ofThe French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars Author Biography Elisa Camiscioli is Associate Professor of History and Womens Studies at Binghamton University. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Embodiment and the Nation 11. Immigration, Demography, and Pronatalism 212. Labor Power and the Racial Economy 513. Hybridity and Its Discontents 754. Black Migrants, White Slavery: Metissage in the Metropole and Abroad 995. Intermarriage, Independent Nationality, and Individual Rights 129Conclusion. Gender, Race, and Republican Embodiment 155Notes 161Bibliography 197Index 223 Review "Reproducing the French Race is an original, insightful, and very important contribution to the historiography of twentieth-century France. One of the best explorations of the intersections between race, gender, and national identity that I have seen, it has no parallel in existing histories of modern France." Tyler Stovall, co-editor of The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France "Reproducing the French Race skillfully traces underlying connections among immigration, gender, and national identity in interwar France, while fundamentally refiguring seemingly settled scholarship on pronatalism and labor rationalization by demonstrating the still under-recognized centrality of race to them. Elisa Camiscioli has written an accomplished and ambitious work that integrates issues typically treated separately into an innovative argument about embodiment that challenges conventional assumptions about French republicanism as essentially abstract and universal."--Gary Wilder, author of The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars Promotional Recasts the origins of French national identity by arguing that gender, race and reproductive practices were central to its construction Review Quote " Reproducing the French Race skillfully weaves together the discourses of empire, corporeality, racialization, citizenship, and intimacy in a bold and innovative look at the foundational actions of republican citizenship, gendered identities, and the racial grammar of early twentieth-century France. Camicsiolis command of the feminist scholarship about sexuality and empire renders the book accessible to non-Francophone specialists, a welcome addition to our knowledge of the imperial roots of contemporary immigration." - Michelle McKinley, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Details ISBN082234565X Author Elisa Camiscioli Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 082234565X ISBN-13 9780822345657 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Short Title EMBODYING THE FRENCH RACE Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Birth 1967 Publication Date 2009-09-18 UK Release Date 2009-09-18 AU Release Date 2009-09-18 NZ Release Date 2009-09-18 US Release Date 2009-09-18 Pages 240 DEWEY 304.84400904 Illustrations 10 illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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