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Black French people also known as French Black people or Afro-French (Afro-Français) are French people who are of African (including Malagasy people) or Melanesian ancestry. It also includes people of mixed African/Melanesian and French ancestry.
In France, people of different backgrounds mix far more freely, and while Black people occupy fewer high-profile positions than in the United States, like all French citizens they enjoy...
July 16, 2018. Amandine Gay’s documentary “Ouvrir la Voix” confronts a political and historical paradox: the illusion of color blindness that’s central to the French national self-image ...
#1 We don’t know exactly how many Black people there are in France. #2 A vast majority of Black people immigrate (d) willingly to mainland France. #3 Slavery was officially abolished, re-established, and re-abolished several times in mainland France and its colonies. #4 Mainland France has never had national racial segregation laws.
Figures on nationalities are allowed but a black immigrant becoming French will disappear from statistics... Based on data from immigration waves researchers have come to say there may be 3 to 5 million blacks in France. African Americans in France make up a minority of the French population, and are not represented in statistical data.
Black French people also known as French Black people or Afro-French (Afro-Français) are French people who are of African or Melanesian ancestry. It also includes people of mixed African/Melanesian and French ancestry.
Note: This story contains strong language in English and French. France is the place where for decades you weren't supposed to talk about someone's blackness, unless you said it in English....
