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Too Black to Be French?

2015
52 min
No Trailer
Documentary

Overview

Approximately, because so-called "ethnic" statistics are prohibited, there are an estimated 3.3 million black French citizens. Distant descendants of slaves from the Caribbean or "indigenous" peoples from the French colonial empire in Africa, they constitute a minority that is often discriminated against. Isabelle Boni-Claverie, a mixed-race woman raised in the affluent neighborhoods of Paris, daughter of an Ivorian politician and granddaughter of Alphonse Boni, a Black man who became a magistrate of the French Republic in the 1930s, examines what is blocking the social advancement of Black French people and the full recognition of their citizenship.

Production

Quark Productions · ARTE France Cinéma

Directors & Crew

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Isabelle Boni-Claverie

Director

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Isabelle Boni-Claverie

Writer

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