Workbook
For Afro-French Families
Blackness, Frenchness, and the Intersection Nobody Talks About
France says race does not exist. We live it every day. We finally named what we live.
For the Afro-French family naming what Blackness and Frenchness mean together in their household.
The Name It First Experience
Your family is Black and French. France says race does not exist — that everyone is equally French. Your daily experience says something different. You have navigated that gap your whole life. This workbook gives your family a structured space to name what Afro-French means in your household, what you carry from Africa or the Caribbean, and what Republican colorblindness has been unable to hold. The output is not a political position. It is your signed family record.
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Sample questions
- What word describes the gap between what France says about belonging and what your family's daily experience has actually been?
- When you look at what your family carries from Africa or the Caribbean and what your children are growing up inside in France, what do you notice you most want to protect?
- What would your family's identity document look like if each generation named what being Black and French means to them — not what France decides, but what your family decides?
Research basis
Cross (1971, 1991) Nigrescence Model adapted to Afro-French identity / Helms (1990) racial identity statuses / Berry (1997) acculturation strategies / Crenshaw (1989, 1991) intersectionality / Brah (1996) Cartographies of Diaspora applied to African diaspora in France / Hall (1990) Cultural Identity and Diaspora / Ndiaye (2008) La Condition Noire: Essai sur une minorité française / Fassin & Fassin (2006) De la question sociale à la question raciale applied to Afro-French identity / French Republican colorblindness and race (Bleich, 2003) / Gilroy (1993) The Black Atlantic applied to Afro-French diaspora / Afro-Caribbean French identity (Burton, 1993).
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