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This article examines Whiteness from the perspective of the concept of Blackness and the production of Black gazes upon Whiteness. The goal is neither to reverse old schemes nor to establish a new asymmetric duality, but to come back to the first space in which political, social, and visual dynamics are formed—the body. In doing so, the article shows that the notions and tools developed by Blackness Studies and Critical Race Theories enable the analysis of the role of corporeality in the joint construction of Whiteness and Blackness.

Le corps noir est à la conjonction des expériences africaines et afro-descendantes. Déplacé, exhibé, scruté, il porte les histoires de migrations successives entre l'Afrique, les Amériques et l'Europe. Cet article examine la géographie corporelle dessinée par certaines œuvres produites par des photographes contemporains africains, afro-américains et afro-européens comme Carrie Mae Weems, Ingrid Mwangi, Rotimi Fani-Kayode ou Kudzanai Chiurai. Il discute de leurs représentations croisées du corps noir défini comme une métaphore d'une positionalité atlantique, voire d'un cosmopolitanisme noir. Le propos est de saisir comment les images reconstruisent le corps comme un espace d'interaction et représentation d'une histoire noire connectée, dont l'Atlantique est le lieu de formulation premier.

The daily representation of African-Americans' African origins has long been a dilemma. Among the expressions which nowadays make visible these origins, kente cloth has become an emblematic sign representing an African past. Since the 1990s and the emergence of Afrocentric discourses which celebrate Africans-Americans' unity with Africa, kente has become an inexorable reference. Like a renewed oath of interdependence between the African-American identity and its African roots, wearing kente for community meetings illustrates a desire to enhance these roots and, sometimes, to define them following radical Afrocentric interpretations. This article explores the role of kente in rediscovering an African heritage and questions the impact of Afrocentrisms on popular representations of the past of African-Americans. Adapted from the source document.

■ SARAH FILA-BAKABABIO Holocaust vs. Holocaust : On the Pronunciation of an Afrocentrist Rhetoric in the Contemporary Expressions of Black Anti-Semitism
The tale of relations between African Americans and Jews is that of an eventful history which made appear the idea of black anti-Semitism. Behind a half-slick half-frightening smile of a Louis Farrakhan telling off Jews as exploiters of the Blacks in the United States, there are some Afrocentrist historians who mix up afro-centered historiographic perspective and stigmatization of the other who appears to be the Jew.