
The limits of France’s racial memory
The French narrative of the Enlightenment still struggles to contend with the country’s racialized hierarchy in its cultural artifacts.
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Chiara Théophile is a French-American PhD student in African Diaspora History at NYU, where she draws on her past life as a luxury fashion storyteller to research race, fashion, and Black identity across France, the United States, the Antilles, and West.
The French narrative of the Enlightenment still struggles to contend with the country’s racialized hierarchy in its cultural artifacts.