Black Skins, French Voices
Caribbean Ethnicity And Activism In Urban France
Case Studies in Anthropology Series

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.

Series Editor Preface -- Introduction -- Finding Creole Identities in Martinique and Paris -- What is the Price of Frenchness? -- Betrayed Antilles, Broken French Promises -- Boudin, Rhum, and Zouk: Performance and Cultural Confrontation -- Gan Magic Fix A Broken Culture? -- In This World, But Not of it -- Conclusion: Creolizing France

David Beriss is assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans. He has worked as an applied anthropologist in association with the US Senate, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the National Coalition for the Homeless.