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To Be Free and French

Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire

By: Lorelle Semley

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To Be Free and French

Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire

By: Lorelle Semley

The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of color for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French Republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labor in the colonization of Africa. They defined an alternative French citizenship, which recognized difference, particularly race, as part of a 'universal' French identity. Spanning Atlantic port cities in Haiti, Senegal, Martinique, Benin, and France, this book is a major contribution to scholarship on citizenship, race, empire, and gender, and it sheds new light on debates around human rights and immigration in contemporary France.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108293565

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Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass

Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town

By: Lorelle D. Semley

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Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass

Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town

By: Lorelle D. Semley

Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complicated than previously thought. While in KÃ©tu, BÃ©nin, Semley discovered that women were treasurers, advisors, ritual specialists, and colonial agents in addition to their more familiar roles as queens, wives, and sisters. These women with special influence made it difficult for the French and others to enforce an ideal of subordinate women. As she traces how women gained prominence, Semley makes clear why powerful mother figures still exist in the symbols and rituals of everyday practices.

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Indiana University Press

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0253004888

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To be Free and French

Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire

By: Lorelle Semley

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To be Free and French

Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire

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An ambitious new vision of French citizenship from the perspective of Africans and Antilleans living in the colonies and mainland France. Lorelle Semley explores the ways in which these colonial subjects used French democratic ideals to demand rights and redefine the meanings of freedom and 'Frenchness'.

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110710114X

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Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass

Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town

By: Lorelle D. Semley

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Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

By: Lorelle D. Semley

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

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A comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of ancient Greek ethical thought, investigating the figures, movements, and themes of this branch of philosophy.

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1107053919

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

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A comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of ancient Greek ethical thought, investigating the figures, movements, and themes of this branch of philosophy.

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Book's by Lorelle Semley

To Be Free and French

To Be Free and French

Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass

Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass

To be Free and French

To be Free and French

Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass

Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

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