One Story of Academia : Race Lines and the Rhetoric of Distinction Through the Academie Francaise

"One Story of Academia: Race Lines and the Rhetoric of Distinction through the Academie francaise" explores how the word race was historically linked to kings and feudal lords as a sign of elite social distinction, and how the Academie francaise has embodied that type of distinction in France since its establishment in 1635. Meant to be an undeclared, scholarly, mysterious companion to the French ...