William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face was originally published in 1963, but it has been almost impossible to access a copy until July 2021, when New York Review Books issued a paperback edition. The novel tells the story of an African American expatriate, Simeon Brown, who initially finds his life in the early 1960s Paris to be a welcoming color-blind idyll, after experiencing racial violence in the United States. In trying to reconcile the positive experience of African American expatriates in France with the French oppression of Algerians, Simeon discovers that he is considered White by perceived privilege, if not by skin color and, therefore, complicit in the French racism toward Algerians. He begins to lose his previously utopian outlook after he embarks on a journey to find out more about the Algerian War. The novel culminates in an account of the massacre of Algerian protesters by Parisian police on October 17, 1961. Of all the African American expatriates who lived in France in the 1960s, Smith alone actively opposed the French treatment of Algerians in his writing, and he was the first to write about it. The chapter emphasizes that The Stone Face should be considered an important account preserving cultural memory of the 1961 Paris massacre and argues that it also illuminates the ways that practices of French racism and French colonialism are in fact deeply aligned with the practices of racism and oppression in the United States.