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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
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 336 pages)
Series African Expressive Cultures
African expressive cultures.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject African diaspora -- France
National characteristics, French.
Africans -- France -- Social conditions
Africans -- France -- Ethnic identity
Africans -- France -- Attitudes
Africans -- Cultural assimilation -- France
Popular culture -- France
French.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
French
African diaspora
Africans -- Cultural assimilation
Africans -- Social conditions
Civilization -- African influences
National characteristics, French
Popular culture
Race relations
SUBJECT France -- Race relations
France -- Civilization -- African influences
Subject France
Form Electronic book
Author Tshimanga, Charles.
Gondola, Ch. Didier, 1966-
Bloom, Peter J.
ISBN 9780253003904
0253003903