@carolinesequin
Historian of France—race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2. Views expressed are my own.
Fabulous work! And thank you for the generous review. I couldn’t help but think about Cyril Olivier’s Le Vice ou le Vertu has an excellent book on the regulation of sexuality under Vichy. It’s already 20 years old, though.
My review of @carolinesequin.bsky.social's excellent, award-winning book Desiring Whiteness is out! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
Great @theconversation.com Q&A by @carolinesequin.bsky.social on her award-winning "Desiring Whiteness" that "explores the intertwined histories of commercial sex work and racial politics in France and the French colonial empire, particularly in Senegal."
theconversation.com/sex-workers-... (1/2)
To my great dislike, I’m doing a lot of blue book exams and even considering oral exams for one of my courses, although I have 30+ students so it would be quite time consuming. Of course, this format is problematic to test students’ analytical thinking and writing skills
Thank you Patricia!
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Thank you Mary!
Thank you, and congratulations to you!
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I hope you enjoy it!
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My book, Desiring Whiteness, was awarded the 2025 Alf Andrew Heggoy prize for best book in French colonial history (1815-present)! In a world that is falling apart, I cherish this bit of happy news and hope for brighter days ahead for all.
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Thank you! These words mean so much, especially coming from you!
Points well taken! I post so rarely on social media that I forget the basics (I know, I sound like an old person). I will write a better post ;)
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Happy to zoom in if you ever decide to assign it!
May I humbly suggest my recently published book, Desiring Whiteness? It focuses on the experiences of the white women who sold sex and ran brothels in France and its empire in the century following the abolition of slavery. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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A bookshelf with academic history books on display
First time seeing my book (in great company) in the wild since it was published! #AHA2025
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with @carolinesequin.bsky.social out tomorrow! #BlackFriday
Aww, Andrew! Your excellent scholarship deeply informed my thinking.
in an imperial-nation state that was supposedly race-blind.
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benefit of male heterosexual desire. My book argues that the French system served as a tool of not only gender but also racial control. I demonstrate that the regulation of commercial sex helped to covertly police racial relations and uphold the myth of French whiteness 4/
It first developed in Paris before spreading across France, part of the French Empire, and many modern countries in the 19th and 20th centuries. Historians have compellingly shown how this regulationist regime constituted an arbitrary form of control over working-class women’s bodies for the 3/
Desiring Whiteness traces the rise and fall of the "French system" in the century following the abolition of slavery. The French system was a prostitution regime that tolerated brothels and imposed various restrictive measures on the women deemed prostitutes. 2/
Good morning to my new followers! I am a historian of modern France who specializes in gender, sexuality, race, migration, and colonialism. My first book, Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 just came out last month. 1/
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