Black Skins, French Voices

Caribbean Ethnicity And Activism In Urban France

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology

• Author: David Beriss
• ISBN: 9780429981678
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Publication: April 27, 2018
• Imprint: Routledge
• Language: English

This book is about the choices black French citizens make when they move from Martinique and Guadeloupe to Paris and discover that they are not fully French. It shows how ethnic activists in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora organize to demand what has never been available to them in France.