Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary FranceCharles Tshimanga, Ch. Didier Gondola, Peter J. Bloom Auto da fé : understanding the 2005 Riots. Primitive rebellion in the French Banlieues : on the fall 2005 riots / Didier Lapeyronnie -- The republic and its beast : on the riots in the French Banlieues / Achille Mbembe -- Figures of multiplicity : can France reinvent Its identity? / Achille Mbembe -- Outsiders in the French melting pot : the public construction of invisibility for visible minorities / Ahmed Boubeker -- Colonization, citizenship, and containment. From imperial inclusion to republican exclusion? : France's ambiguous postwar trajectory / Frederick Cooper -- Colonial syndrome : French modern and the deceptions of history / Florence Bernault -- Transient citizens : the othering and indigenization of blacks and Beurs within the French Republic / Didier Gondola -- The Law of February 23, 2005 : the uses made of the revival of France's "colonial grandeur" / Nicolas Bancel -- Visions and tensions of Frenchness. A conservative revolution within secularism : the ideological premises and social effects of the March 15, 2004, "anti-headscarf" law / Pierre Tévanian -- Zidane : portrait of the artist as political avatar / Nacira Guénif-Souilamas -- The state of French cultural exceptionalism : the 2005 uprisings and the politics of visibility Peter J. Bloom -- Let the music play : the African diaspora, popular culture, and national identity in contemporary France / Charles Tshimanga. |
Contents
Examining Frenchness and the African Diaspora | 3 |
Understanding the 2005 Riots | 19 |
On the Fall 2005 Riots | 21 |
On the Riots in the French Banlieues | 47 |
Can France Reinvent Its Identity? | 55 |
The Public Construction of Invisibility for Visible Minorities | 70 |
Part 2 Colonization Citizenship and Containment | 89 |
5 From Imperial Inclusion to Republican Exclusion? Frances Ambiguous Postwar Trajectory | 91 |
Part 3 Visions and Tensions of Frenchness | 185 |
The Ideological Premises and Social Effects of the March 15 2004 AntiHeadscarf Law | 187 |
Portrait of the Artist as Political Avatar | 205 |
The 2005 Uprisings and the Politics of Visibility | 227 |
The African Diaspora Popular Culture and National Identity in Contemporary France | 248 |
We Are the Natives of the Republic | 277 |
Glossary | 283 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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