About Trica Keaton
Trica Keaton is Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Muslim Girls and the Other France (2006) and coeditor of Black Europe and the African Diaspora (2009, with Tyler Stovall) and Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness (2015, with Darlene Clark Hine and Stephen Small).
What is race? Over time and space, many people have asked that very question. However, there is no universal definition or universally agreed-on response to this query, largely because the concept of race, born out of Europe and disseminated across the globe, is a human invention.