摘要: France has long defined itself as a color-blind nation where racial bias no place. Even today, the French universal curriculum for secondary students makes mention of race or slavery, and many scholars still resist addressing questions. Yet, this groundbreaking volume shows, color other markers have been major factors in national life more than three hundred years. The sixteen essays "The Color Liberty" offer wealth innovative research on neglected history France, ranging from early modern period to present."The addresses four themes: evolution an idea France; representations 'the other' by writers, artists, business people; international dimensions thinking, particularly relation colonialism; impact differences shaping city.The permutations - assigned identity, scientific discourse, philosophical problem, by-product migration, tool empire building, consumer product icon here receive nuanced treatments confronting malleability ideas about uses which they put. Contributors: Leora Auslander, M. Claude Blanckaert, Alice Conklin, Fred Constant, Laurent Dubois, Yale Simpson Fletcher, Richard Fogarty, John Garrigus, Dana Hale, Thomas C. Holt, Patricia E. Lorcin, Dennis McEnnerney, Michael A. Osborne, Lynn Palermo, Sue Peabody, Pierre H. Boulle, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Tyler Stovall, G. Vann, Gary Wilder.