French and West Indian
Subtitle: Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana today
By: edited by Richard D.E. Burton and Fred Reno.
Contributors: Burton, Richard D. E., 1946-; Réno, Fred.
Series: New World studies
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Blacks -- Race identity -- France.; West Indies, French -- Civilization -- 20th century.; French Guiana -- Civilization -- 20th century.; West Indies, French -- Relations -- France.; France -- Relations -- West Indies, French.; French Guiana -- Relations -- France.; France -- Relations -- French Guiana.
Other titles: Antilles-Guyane au rendez-vous de l'Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-199) and index.
"Most of the chapters in this collection first appeared in French in Les Antilles-Guyane au rendez-vous de l'Europe ... published by Economica (Paris), 1994"--Acknowledgements.
Table of contents: title: The French West Indies à l'heure de l'Europe : an overview / Richard D.E. Burton and Fred Reno; title: Constitutional and political change in the French Caribbean / Helen Hintjens; title: Politics and society in Martinique / Fred Reno; title: Guadeloupean consensus / Jean-Paul Eluther; title: Society, culture and politics in French Guiana / Bridget Jones and Elie Stephenson; title: Dialectics of descent and phenotypes in racial classification in Martinique / Michel Giraud; title: The Declaration of the Treaty of Maastricht on the ultra-peripheral regions of the Community : an assessment / Emmanuel Jos; title: The French Antilles and the wider Caribbean / Maurice Burac; title: West Indians in France / Alain Anselin; title: Women from Guadeloupe and Martinique / Arlette Gautier; title: The idea of difference in contemporary French West Indian thought : Négritude, Antillanité, Créolité / Richard D. E. Burton; title: French West Indian writing since 1970 / Beverley Ormerod.