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Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960
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- Owen White
- Clarendon Press
- Hardcover
- 9780198208198
- 8.34 X 6.22 X 0.73 inches
- 0.86 pounds
- Social Science > Sociology - Marriage & Family
- English
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This book vividly recreates the lives and identities of the children born of relationships between French men and African women in colonial French West Africa. It shows how colonial policies and attitudes influenced the lives of this mixed-race population and analyzes their responses to living in a racially divided society.
Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960
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Owen White specializes in the history of modern France and the French colonial empire, with particular research interests in West Africa and Algeria. He grew up in the U.K., receiving his B.A. from the University of Exeter and his doctorate from the University of Oxford.
The author of a book about the mixed-race population of French West Africa and articles on a variety of aspects of French colonialism, he has also published two edited volumes: one (with J. P. Daughton) on French missionaries, the other on social organization in modern empires.
He recently completed a history of Algerian wine, and is now researching resistance to taxation in colonial empires.
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