AAAS 68.10 Afro/Black Paris: Past, Present, and Future

 What is “Afro/Black Paris?” This study away course is designed to take students on a journey not to a destination called “Black Paris,” but rather through the lived experiences of African descended people—from racial enslavement until today—who have been racialized-as-black in a “raceblind” France. What are the myths and realities associated with life in Paris and France, past, present, and future? What accounts for African American immigration to the City of Light? What does belonging look like in this extraordinary city that Ernest Hemingway refers to as “a moveable feast?” Or, as James Baldwin writes, “[i]n America, the color of my skin had stood between myself and me; in Europe, that barrier was down.” Was it? – one of many pertinent questions examined in this course.

Instructor

Keaton

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:INT, SOC; WCult:CI

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