| Recipient | Catherine Phipps |
|---|---|
| Date | 01 April, 2025 |
| Amount | £8000.00 |
| Summary | Sex, Race and Power re-evaluates the impact of French colonial power in Morocco through regulating the body, sexuality and emotions. It addresses the intimate experiences of individuals, both colonisers and colonised, as they navigated racialised and gendered colonial hierarchies. French colonial dominance in this period led to intense regulation of state-controlled prostitution that trapped unwilling Moroccan women inside the brothel system and illegally shipped them to military brothels in France, expelled from the country white women in relationships with Moroccan men and refused entry to couples in mixed marriages, banned films showing interracial romance, yet intentionally overlooked the exploitation of young Moroccan boys by European and North American men because of understandings of “traditional” Moroccan sexuality. Through love letters, archival military records, medical journals and poetry, this project unravels the emotional complexities that underpinned imperialism and the exploitative treatment of Moroccan people at the hands of the French colonial state. |
