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Reconstructing Race in French Africa and Liberated Europe
2022
Overview
As a student in the mid-1940s in French schools in Senegal, Marie Louise Potin Gueye had a wildly diverse set of classroom experiences. The daughter of métis parents from royal Serer lineages, Potin Gueye was born into the small francophone elite in Saint Louis and was part of an even smaller subset of African girls pursuing formal education in the middle decades of the twentieth century.¹ In a 2010 interview with the French leftist magazine Libération, Potin Gueye, then seventy-eight, recalled how during the war, she and her classmates were forced to pay homage to Pétain at the start of
Publisher
Cornell University Press
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ISBN
1501765612, 9781501765612, 9781501765605, 1501765604
