"The broad scope, multidisciplinary sensibility, and archival rigor make The Black Populations of France a treasure-trove of innovative study and historiographic information. The book can be adopted for courses connected to Black Europe, France, colonization and decolonization, overseas territories, race, national identity and citizenship, and more."—Christy L. Pichichero, Journal of Modern History
“A needed expansion and corrective to the history of France, whose long-standing and diverse Black populations remain insufficiently explored. The originality of this book also resides in its geographical reach, as it extends beyond the metropole to a vast overseas territorial divide. . . . At the same time [it elucidates] the temporal fluidity of race and Blackness in these geographies, which contradict and complicate France’s cherished ideals of universalism and citizenship.”—Trica Keaton, coeditor of Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness
