Race and Sex across the French Atlantic is a critical reconceptualization of the contributions of France and the Frenchspeaking world to race relations in the continental United States. Radically reevaluating the work of French and Francophone cultural icons such as Jean Genet Aime Cesaire Frantz Fanon and Dany Laferriere this book makes use of untapped historical archival records that link these writers to important AfricanAmerican political activists and intellectuals such as Lorraine Hansberry James Baldwin and the Black Panthers and even to the white American writer Norman Mailer. Which Color is Black argues that reevaluating the Franch Atlantic characterized by Quebec France Belgium the French Caribbean and Frenchspeaking Africa may fundamentally reshape present transatlantic notions of race and sexuality.