The practice of “Black American Paris” falls within the realm as an object of study, precisely because of the narratives it has generated and regenerated. And, as much as these narratives rely on race terror in the United States to explain the causes of migration—legitimately so I might add—they must equally depict a tolerant, liberal, and racially utopic France, again, to rationalize being in a country where other African and Asian descended peoples have clearly not been well received, as a plethora of postcolonial literature aptly demonstrates. “‘Black (American) Paris’ and the French Outer-Cities” 99