“But i ain‘t African, i‘m American!”: Black American exiles and the construction of racial identities in twentieth-century France

Blackening Europe: The African American Presence

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 201-215

  Gondola, Ch Didier ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77953488603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203446157     Document Type: Chapter

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