The métis of Senegal
Subtitle: urban life and politics in French West Africa
By: Hilary Jones
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780253006738; 9780253006745; 9780253007056
Subjects: Politics and government; Political leadership; Racially mixed people; Administration; Elite (Social sciences); Assimilation (Sociology); Social conditions; Urban Sociology; Colonies; Metropolitan government; History
Description: Examines the politics and society of an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialism, becoming middleman traders for European merchants and ultimately power brokers against French rule.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Signares, habitants, and grumets in the making of Saint Louis; title: Métis society and transformations in the colonial economy (1820-70); title: Religion, marriage, and material culture; title: Education, association, and an independent press; title: From outpost to empire; title: Electoral politics and the métis (1870-90); title: Urban politics and the limits of republicanism (1890-1920).