BLACK is not the new NOIR #REPLAY
My African Cliches (English)
English - August 18, 2019 04:30 - 6 minutes - 10.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHistory Society & Culture blackhistory africanarchives africancultures africanheroes africanhistory blackgreatness greatafrica learnafricanculture sankofabird sankofatrips Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Black, History of a color in France
The episode earlier this week highlighted the numerous negative connotations that comes, in France with the word Noir, that translates into Black in French. One of the consequence maybe of that is that there is now a French tendency to avoid the word French "Noir" to designate a black skinned person in favor of the English term "black" This is well illustrated in a video put online in 2002 by the French association « Les Indivisibles » entitled "Do not be afraid of the Noir". For the purpose of this episode, I will continue use the french word Noir, to avoid confusions.
So our question dealt with today is whether France is afraid to say the French word NOIR