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- Title
"The Black Race's Dreyfus Affair": Hégésippe Jean Légitimus and the Dissimilation of Colonial Guadeloupe.
- Authors
HEATH, ELIZABETH
- Abstract
This article examines the dissimilation of Guadeloupean citizens of color in the early twentieth century and their marginalization within the French republic. Focusing on the "troubles" in Guadeloupe and the scandals surrounding the black deputy Hégésippe Jean Légitimus, the author shows how Guadeloupeans were gradually excluded from full citizenship. These incidents reveal a key moment in the construction of race in the early Third Republic and, above all, the consolidation of an imperial form of republicanism based on difference and political exclusion in the period prior toWorld War I.
- Subjects
GUADELOUPE; FRENCH overseas departments; FRANCE; LEGITIMUS, Hegesippe Jean; SCANDALS; HISTORY of French colonies; FRENCH politics &; government, 1870-1940; BLACK politicians; CITIZENSHIP; POLITICAL corruption; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood in politics; ADMINISTRATION of French colonies; ETHNIC relations
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 2, p261
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-7300069