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Dissertation Information for Yael Simpson Fletcher

NAME:
- Yael Simpson Fletcher

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- Kathryn E Amdur

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Judith A. Miller
- Heide Fehrenbach

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: City, nation, and empire in Marseilles, 1919--1939

Abstract: My project draws on immigration history, urban social history, gender history, and the new cultural history of national identity, race, and empire. Based on four years of research in French archival and published sources, the dissertation explores the impact on the port city of Marseilles of some 100,000 Italian, Spanish, Armenian, and other foreign immigrants and refugees, as well as of a smaller but highly visible population of Arab, African, and Asian colonial subjects. I contend that this presence complicated notions of both civic and national identity. Commercial initiatives, municipal politics, and labor conflicts mobilized narratives and representations of Marseilles\'s Mediterranean origins, colonial ties, and multicultural urban life. Gender was crucial for the figuration of race and class in discussions of relations among colonial migrants, foreign immigrants, and French natives. I argue that interwar contests over the \"Frenchness\" of Marseilles made the city a key site for the racialization of a supposedly inclusive republican French national identity. My work on Marseilles challenges the centrality of Paris in studies of national identity and complements current scholarship focused on race and sexuality in the colonies. I believe my study makes a significant contribution to the field of twentieth-century French history as well as to an interdisciplinary agenda of interrogating national and racial identities and problematizing the boundary between the European metropole and colonies.

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