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Title Frenchness and the African diaspora : identity and uprising in contemporary France / edited by Charles Tshimanga, Didier Gondola, and Peter J. Bloom.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 336 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African Expressive Cultures
African expressive cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and index.
Contents 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- App. 1. A call to action : "we are the natives of the Republic!"
Summary How the African diaspora redefines Frenchness.
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Subject African diaspora -- France.
African diaspora.
France.
National characteristics, French.
National characteristics, French.
Africans -- France -- Social conditions.
Africans.
Social conditions.
Africans -- France -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Africans -- France -- Attitudes.
Africans -- Cultural assimilation -- France.
Africans -- Cultural assimilation.
Popular culture -- France.
Popular culture.
France -- Race relations.
Race relations.
France -- Civilization -- African influences.
Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Tshimanga, Charles.
Gondola, Ch. Didier, 1966-
Bloom, Peter J.
Other Form: Print version: Frenchness and the African diaspora. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009 9780253353757 (DLC) 2009017102 (OCoLC)313659081
ISBN 9780253003904 (electronic book)
0253003903 (electronic book)
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