TY - BOOK AU - Saada,Emmanuelle TI - Les enfants de la colonie: les métis de l'Empire francais entre sujétion et citoyenneté T2 - L'Espace de l'histoire SN - 9782707139825 AV - 318 DC 801 S111e 2007 U1 - 305.8009171244 DDC21fre PY - 2007/// CY - Paris PB - Ed. La Découverte KW - Integration KW - swd KW - Integración social KW - Colonias KW - Historia KW - Nacionalidad KW - Soziale Integration KW - Kolonie KW - Staatsangehèorigkeit KW - Mestizen KW - Frankreich N1 - Literaturverz. S. 321 - [331]; Foreword / by Frederick Cooper -- Introduction -- Le métissage: a colonial social problem -- An imperial question -- A threat to the colonial order -- "Reclassifying" the métis -- The law takes up the "métis question" -- Nationality and citizenship in the colonial situation -- The controversy over "fraudulent recognitions" -- Investigating paternity in the colonies -- Citizens by virtue of race -- The force of law -- The effects of citizenship -- Identities under the law -- French nationality and citizenship reconsidered -- Conclusion N2 - Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons of mixed parentage born in French Indochina-the métis-she found not only a remarkable artifact of colonial rule, but a legal bombshell that introduced race into French law for the first time. The decree was the culmination of a decades-long effort to resolve the "métis question": the education ER -