L’ANTI-GENRE AU SERVICE D’UNE IDENTITÉ AFRICAINE «AUTHENTIQUE». GENRE, SEXUALITÉ ET ENGAGEMENT PANAFRICANISTE EN FRANCE. (French)

Anti-Gender as a Means of Building an “Authentic” African Identity: Gender, Sexuality, and Pan-Africanist Activism in France. (English)

This article focuses on the Afrocentric pan-Africanist associations based in France, which, in line with sexual nationalisms, place the question of male/female relations and sexuality at the heart of their political project to decolonize the identity of the “black people”. By analysing the genealogy of these ideas and discourses, this article shows that the main ideological matrix of these activists’ anti-gender position is Afrocentrism. It also underlines how paradoxically they are inspired by ideas that conflict with their objectives such as feminism, Christianity, and colonial ideology, and thus contribute to the Afrocentrism transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article porte sur des associations panafricanistes afrocentriques basées en France qui, dans la veine des nationalismes sexuels, placent la question des rapports hommes/femmes et de la sexualité au cœur de leur projet politique consistant à décoloniser l’identité du «peuple noir ». Analysant la généalogie de ces idées et de ces discours, cet article montre que la matrice idéologique principale de la position anti-genre de ces militant·e·s est l’afrocentrisme. Mais il souligne aussi combien ils s’inspirent paradoxalement d’idées contraires à leurs objectifs, issues des féminismes, du christianisme et de l’idéologie coloniale, et contribuent ainsi à transformer l’idéologie afrocentriste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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