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Academics launch petition against 'racist' mural in French parliament
Racial awareness and reassessing public art in Europe
The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly
French National Assembly criticised for mural depicting racist stereotypes
Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics
French but not (Q)White: Defining Frenchness for the 21st Century: Prof. Mame-Fatou Niang
Who gets to speak for black French people?
Fighting Racism Is What Makes Us Universalists
Facing France’s Ghosts: A Conversation with Mame-Fatou Niang
Perspective - Mame-Fatou Niang on adapting French universalism to the 21st century
Put simply, it's the notion that the collective transcends individual differences like ethnicity or religion. But many see that definition as...
Academics launch petition against 'racist' mural in French parliament
Two French academics have launched a petition to remove a parliament mural commemorating the abolition of slavery, which they said was a racist, humiliating...
Racial awareness and reassessing public art in Europe
Professors Ana Lucia Araujo of Howard University and Mame-Fatou Niang of Carnegie Mellon University discussed movements to remove or rebrand...
The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly
Lauren Collins writes about a recent Change.org petition, started by the French filmmaker and scholar Mame-Fatou Niang and the French...
French National Assembly criticised for mural depicting racist stereotypes
A decades-old mural hanging at the Palais Bourbon in Paris, the seat of the French National Assembly, has come under fire for its racist stereotypes of black...
Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics
Mame-Fatou Niang, assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies, “is a passionate and charismatic teacher,” said Susan Polansky,...
French but not (Q)White: Defining Frenchness for the 21st Century: Prof. Mame-Fatou Niang
This talk will analyze France's refusal to consider race as a valid category of analysis, when it functions precisely as an instantaneous element of natural...
Who gets to speak for black French people?
There is a long history of white artists representing black people in France, reproducing stereotypes and failing to capture the people they claim to represent.
Fighting Racism Is What Makes Us Universalists
Anti-racists in France are constantly accused of being “identitarians” undermining the supposed universalism of the “color-blind” Republic.
Facing France’s Ghosts: A Conversation with Mame-Fatou Niang
The Francophone scholar discusses her work and activism as a major Black voice in the French public sphere.
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Senegalese academic and writer focusing on gender studies, postcolonial literature and feminist issues; known for scholarship and public commentary on women’s rights.