Mame Fatou Niang and Laurent Dubreuil explore some aspects of what it means to “be black” in France, both culturally and politically.
In this episode, Mame Fatou Niang is Laurent Dubreuil’s guest. Together, they explore some aspects of what it means to “be black” in France, paying a particular attention to questions of history, memory, symbols, and representation. They also exchange on their own biographical trajectories in an attempt to explain a certain malaise that they both feel vis-à-vis French society today.
Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie-Mellon University.