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

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ISBN:

9780253003904

Title:

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

Author:

Tshimanga, Charles.

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 336 p.)

Series:

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!"

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Subject Term:

African diaspora -- France.

National characteristics, French.

Africans -- France -- Social conditions.

Africans -- France -- Ethnic identity.

Africans -- France -- Attitudes.

Africans -- Cultural assimilation -- France.

Popular culture -- France.

Geographic Term:

France -- Race relations.

France -- Civilization -- African influences.

Added Author:

Tshimanga, Charles.

Gondola, Ch. Didier, 1966-

Bloom, Peter J.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

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Summary

In 2005, following the death of two youths of African origin, France erupted in a wave of violent protest. More than 10,000 automobiles were burned or stoned, hundreds of public buildings were vandalized or burned to the ground, and hundreds of people were injured. Charles Tshimanga, Didier Gondola, Peter J. Bloom, and a group of international scholars seek to understand the causes and consequences of these momentous events, while examining how the concept of Frenchness has been reshaped by the African diaspora in France and the colonial legacy.

Author Notes

Charles Tshimanga is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is author of Youth, Education, and Society in the Congo/Kinshasa, 1890-1960 (in French).

Didier Gondola is Associate Professor of African History and African American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is author of The History of Congo.

Peter J. Bloom is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism.