Introduction: race, France, histories / Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall -- Race: the evolution of an idea. Franc̦ois Bernier and the origins of the modern concept of race / Pierre H. Boulle -- Eliminating race, eliminating difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbé Grégoire / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall -- Of monstrous Métis? Hybridity, fear of miscegenation, and patriotism from Buffon to Paul Broca / Claude Blanckaert -- Representations of the other. Race, gender, and virtue in Haiti's failed foundational fiction: La mulâtre comme il y a peu de blanches (1803) / John Garrigus -- Inscribing race in the revolutionary French Antilles / Laurent Dubois -- Sex, gender, and race in the colonial novels of Elissa Rhaïs and Lucienne Favre / Patricia M.E. Lorcin -- French images of race on product trademarks during the Third Republic / Dana S. Hale -- Sambo in Paris: race and racism in the iconography of the everyday / Leora Auslander and Thomas C. Holt -- Colonial and global perspectives. The good, the bad, and the ugly: variation and difference in French racism in colonial Indochine / Michael G. Vann -- Constructions and functions of race in French military medicine, 1830-1920 / Richard Fogarty and Michael A. Osborne -- Panafricanism and the Republican political sphere / Gary Wilder -- Frantz Fanon, the resistance, and the emergence of identity politics / Dennis McEnnerney -- Race and the postcolonial city. Identity under construction: representing the colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 / Lynn E. Palermo -- Who speaks for Africa? The René Maran-Blaise Diagne trial in 1920s Paris / Alice L. Conklin -- Catholics, Communists, and colonial subjects: working-class militancy and racial difference in postwar Marseille / Yaël Simpson Fletcher -- From red belt to black belt: race, class, and urban marginality in twentieth-century Paris / Tyler Stovall