Baker loved France, and France loved her. "African Americans have been celebrated in France both as a way to oppose the American societal model by showing French color-blindness as inclusive and as an effort not to address the colonial history of France and its legacies", said Sarah Mazouz, a sociologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research and the coauthor of For Intersectionality. In James Baldwin's essay "Alas, Poor Richard" - one of many oedipal swipes he leveled at Wright, his former mentor and friend - he wrote, "Richard was able, at last, to live in Paris exactly as he would have lived, had he been a white man, here, in America. FEATURES AS A STUDENT IN PARIS IN THE FALL OF 1990, MY LODGINGS were the envy of my peers - even if the means by which I came about them were not. [Extracted from the article]