TY - JOUR AU - Lamar, Jake AU - Ndiaye, Pap PY - 2022/04/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Cold Civil War? French Historian Pap Ndiaye and American novelist Jake Lamar discuss racial turmoil in the USA and its echoes in France JF - New American Studies Journal: A Forum JA - NASJ VL - 72 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.18422/72-12 UR - //nasjournal.org/NASJ/article/view/667 SP - AB - <p>On February 1, 2022, the American Library in Paris launched its Black History Month program with a conversation between two well-known figures in France’s international Black community. <br>Pap Ndiaye is a historian of French and Senegalese descent. As a professor at Sciences Po, he popularized the study of race and identity in French academia, most notably with his book La Condition noire. In 2021, he was appointed direc- tor of the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris. <br>Jake Lamar is an African American writer who has lived in Paris since 1993. He is the prize-winning author of a memoir, seven novels and a play and teaches creative writing at Sciences Po. What follows are edited excerpts of their exchange.</p> ER -