{"product_id":"empires-children-emmanuelle-saada-9780226733074","title":"Empire's Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies","description":"\u003cp\u003eEurope's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers.When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons of mixed parentage born in French Indochina--the\u003ci\u003e métis\u003c\/i\u003e--she found not only a remarkable artifact of colonial rule, but a legal bombshell that introduced race into French law for the first time. The decree was the culmination of a decades-long effort to resolve the \"métis question\" the educational, social, and civil issues surrounding the mixed population. Operating at the intersection of history, anthropology, and law, \u003ci\u003eEmpire's Children \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough extensive archival work in both France and Vietnam, and a close reading of primary and secondary material from the Pacific islands and sub-Saharan and North Africa, Saada has created in \u003ci\u003eEmpire's Children\u003c\/i\u003e an original and compelling perspective on colonialism, law, race, and culture from the end of the nineteenth century until decolonization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emmanuelle Saada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226733076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226733074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2012","brand":"Emmanuelle Saada","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086424191231,"sku":"9780226733074","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e522b455-c185-489f-9d68-1fdacb82aede.jpg?v=1769094596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empires-children-emmanuelle-saada-9780226733074","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}