Title Reproducing the French race : immigration, intimacy, and embodiment in the early twentieth century / Elisa Camiscioli

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents Embodiment and the nation -- Immigration, demography, and pronatalism -- Labor power and the racial economy -- Hybridity and its discontents -- Black migrants, white slavery : metissage in the metropole and abroad -- Intermarriage, independent nationality, and individual rights -- Gender, race, and republican embodiment Summary In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Camiscioli demonstrates that mass immigration provided politicians, jurists, industrialists, racial theorists, feminists, and others with ample opportunity to explore questions of French racial belonging, France & rsquo;s relationship to the colonial empire and the rest of Europe, and the connections between race and national anxieties regarding depopulation and degeneration. She also shows that discussions of the nation and its citizenry consistently returned to the body: its color and gender, its expenditure of labor power, its reproductive capacity, and its experience of desire. Of paramount importance was the question of which kinds of bodies could assimilate into the & ldquo;French race. & rdquo; By focusing on telling aspects of the immigration debate, Camiscioli reveals how racial hierarchies were constructed, how gender figured in their creation, and how only white Europeans were cast as assimilable. Delving into pronatalist politics, she describes how potential immigrants were ranked according to their imagined capacity to adapt to the workplace and family life in France. She traces the links between racialized categories and concerns about industrial skills and output, and she examines medico-hygienic texts on interracial sex, connecting those to the crusade against prostitution and the related campaign to abolish & ldquo;white slavery, & rdquo; the alleged entrapment of (white) women for sale into prostitution abroad. Camiscioli also explores the debate surrounding the 1927 law that first made it possible for French women who married foreigners to keep their French nationality. She concludes by linking the Third Republic & rsquo;s impulse to create racial hierarchies to the emergence of the Vichy regime Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Immigrants -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 20th century Racism -- France -- History -- 20th century National characteristics, French. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. HISTORY -- Europe -- France. Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations Immigrants -- Government policy National characteristics, French Racism Einwanderung Einwanderungspolitik Ethnische Beziehungen identité nationale -- race -- sexe (genre) -- France -- 20e s. (1ère moitié) identité nationale -- immigration -- métissage -- France -- 20e s. (1ère moitié) natalité -- politique d'immigration -- France -- 20e s. (1ère moitié) SUBJECT France -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century France -- Ethnic relations -- History Subject France Frankreich Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822391197 0822391198

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