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