Under the guise of unconditional belonging, France’s Black diaspora has been absorbed and invisibilized within the broader French identity. French history is Black history. And yet, for all of its inclusivity and benevolent blindness to difference, Black history has never been at the forefront of French history. Walking through “Pan-African Paris,” “Afro-Atlantic Surrealism,” “Back to Africa,” and “A New Black Paris Map,” Blackness remains somehow illegible. To those with a trained eye or inexhaustible patience, the story of Paris Noir does quietly emerge.