ISBN:
0253353750
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0253221315
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9780253003904
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9780253353757
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9780253221315
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 336 p)
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Frenchness and the African Diaspora : Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France
DDC:
305.896/044
Keywords:
National characteristics, French
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African diaspora
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Africans Cultural assimilation
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Popular culture
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Africans Social conditions
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Africans Ethnic identity
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Africans Attitudes
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African diaspora ; France
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Africans ; Cultural assimilation ; France
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Africans ; France ; Attitudes
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Africans ; France ; Ethnic identity
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Africans ; France ; Social conditions
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National characteristics, French
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Popular culture ; France
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Electronic books
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France Race relations
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France Civilization
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African influences
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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 di
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Examining Frenchness and the African Diaspora; Part 1. Auto da fé: Understanding the 2005 Riots; 1. Primitive Rebellion in the French Banlieues: On the Fall 2005 Riots; 2. The Republic and Its Beast: On the Riots in the French Banlieues; 3. Figures of Multiplicity: Can France Reinvent Its Identity?; 4. Outsiders in the French Melting Pot:The Public Construction of Invisibility for Visible Minorities; Part 2. Colonization, Citizenship, and Containment; 5. From Imperial Inclusion to Republican Exclusion? France's Ambiguous Postwar Trajectory
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Colonial Syndrome: French Modern and the Deceptions of History7. Transient Citizens: The Othering and Indigenization of Blacks and Beurs within the French Republic; 8. The Law of February 23, 2005:The Uses Made of the Revival of France's "Colonial Grandeur"; Part 3. Visions and Tensions of Frenchness; 9. A Conservative Revolution within Secularism:The Ideological Premises and Social Effects of the March 15, 2004, "Anti-Headscarf" Law; 10. Zidane: Portrait of the Artist as Political Avatar; 11. The State of French Cultural Exceptionalism: The 2005 Uprisings and the Politics of Visibility
Description / Table of Contents:
12. Let the Music Play: The African Diaspora, Popular Culture, and National Identity in Contemporary FranceAppendix 1 A Call to Action: "We Are the Natives of the Republic!"; Glossary; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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