Tyler Stovall
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
For more than a century, African American artists, authors, musicians and others have traveled to Paris to liberate themselves from the racism of the United States. What made these African Americans choose France? Why were the French fascinated by African Americans? And to what extent was and is France truly colorblind?
Alan Govenar’s film investigates these questions and examines racism that has plagued not only African Americans fleeing the
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