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  • Introduction

  • Sarah C. Dunstan, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book:
    Race, Rights and Reform
    Published online:
    01 March 2021
    Print publication:
    18 February 2021, pp 1-13
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    This introduction opens with an analysis of the way that black intellectuals from throughout the French Empire and the United States understood their relationship to Western civilization more broadly and the Republics of France and America in particular. It positions this book in the heart of contemporary historiographical debates about the relationship between anti-racist and anti-colonial activism and claims to citizenship and human rights. In so doing it brings into conversation the two disparate historiographies of rights and race in the United States and the French Empire and makes an argument for breaking down the division between the “interwar” and “postwar” periods when thinking about these histories.