<i>Brassage</i> on Film: Late Colonialism in French Africa and Race-Making in Postcolonial France in the Work of Jean Rouch

Abstract This article considers the ambivalence of late colonial race politics in France and French Africa through the life and work of celebrated ethnographic filmmaker and pioneer of cinéma vérité, Jean Rouch (1917- 2004). Part of a special issue on late colonialism in Africa, this study shifts the focus from the continent itself to the legacies of late colonialism in Africa for race relations in postcolonial Europe.