Frieda Ekotto is professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan

Incisive, provocative, and utterly persuasive, Race and Sex across the French Atlantic carefully traces a complex system of exchange that helped to define modern understandings of race and sex beyond the boundaries of nation. Linking such disparate figures and events as Jean Genet, the Négritude movement, the African American Civil Rights movement, and the 2005 uprisings in the Parisian suburbs, Ekotto argues that race and sex serve different epistemological functions across various temporal and spatial sites of the francophone African diaspora. This important new book brilliantly reframes our thinking about race, sex, postcoloniality, and black subjectivity in startling and unforgettable ways.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter One: The Blacks and the Whites: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Race between Lorraine Hansberry and Jean GenetChapter 3 Chapter Two: Categorical Reason and Empire: Genet's Use of the N WordChapter 4 Chapter 3: It's About the N WordChapter 5 Chapter 4: Eroshima: The Meeting of the Black Man and the White WomanChapter 6 Conclusion: The Angel of History

Frieda Ekotto is professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan

Incisive, provocative, and utterly persuasive, Race and Sex across the French Atlantic carefully traces a complex system of exchange that helped to define modern understandings of race and sex beyond the boundaries of nation. Linking such disparate figures and events as Jean Genet, the Négritude movement, the African American Civil Rights movement, and the 2005 uprisings in the Parisian suburbs, Ekotto argues that race and sex serve different epistemological functions across various temporal and spatial sites of the francophone African diaspora. This important new book brilliantly reframes our thinking about race, sex, postcoloniality, and black subjectivity in startling and unforgettable ways.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter One: The Blacks and the Whites: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Race between Lorraine Hansberry and Jean GenetChapter 3 Chapter Two: Categorical Reason and Empire: Genet's Use of the N WordChapter 4 Chapter 3: It's About the N WordChapter 5 Chapter 4: Eroshima: The Meeting of the Black Man and the White WomanChapter 6 Conclusion: The Angel of History

Frieda Ekotto is professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan

Incisive, provocative, and utterly persuasive, Race and Sex across the French Atlantic carefully traces a complex system of exchange that helped to define modern understandings of race and sex beyond the boundaries of nation. Linking such disparate figures and events as Jean Genet, the Négritude movement, the African American Civil Rights movement, and the 2005 uprisings in the Parisian suburbs, Ekotto argues that race and sex serve different epistemological functions across various temporal and spatial sites of the francophone African diaspora. This important new book brilliantly reframes our thinking about race, sex, postcoloniality, and black subjectivity in startling and unforgettable ways.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter One: The Blacks and the Whites: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Race between Lorraine Hansberry and Jean GenetChapter 3 Chapter Two: Categorical Reason and Empire: Genet's Use of the N WordChapter 4 Chapter 3: It's About the N WordChapter 5 Chapter 4: Eroshima: The Meeting of the Black Man and the White WomanChapter 6 Conclusion: The Angel of History