Vive La France
British Caribbean soldiers and interracial intimacies on the Western Front
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5064591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reena N Goldthree (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cch.2016.0040 |
| OpenAlex | W2558367398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
During the First World War, Britain and France mobilized colonial soldiers and non-European civilian laborers on an unprecedented scale to support military operations on the Western Front. The massive deployment of soldiers and contract workers from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean temporarily transformed the racial demographics in Western Europe and ruptured the geographic and social boundaries between European metropoles and their overseas colonial territories. Framing the Western Front as a sociocultural contact zone, this article examines how colonial soldiers from the British West Indies Regiment (BWIR) navigated interracial and inter-imperial encounters in wartime France. The article illustrates how BWIR soldiers’ intimate exchanges across the color line—whether at military work sites, in places of leisure or in private homes—provided an opportunity to compare British and French racial policies and to assess the status of colonials of color in the British Empire
Ancient history · Ethnology · Geography · Meteorology · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History
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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power
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Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War
Imperial Eyes
White Man's War, Coloured Man's Labour. Working for the British Army on the Western Front
Women, Gender, Intimacy, and Empire
Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945
Empires in World War I
Africa and the First World War
African Manpower Statistics for the British Forces in East Africa, 1914–1918
Carrier Corps Recruitment in the British East Africa Protectorate 1914–1918
Immigrant Workers in France during World War I
World War I and the Rise of African Nationalism
Colour-blind France? colonial workers during the first world war
Beasts of Burden
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |