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Frenchness and the African Diaspora Charles Tshimanga

Frenchness and the African Diaspora By Charles Tshimanga

Frenchness and the African Diaspora by Charles Tshimanga

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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. This book seeks to understand the causes and consequences of these events.

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Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France by Charles Tshimanga

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.

Frenchness and the African Diaspora Reviews

[This] compilation offers a wide perspective on the history and contemporary reality of French immigrant life and the prospects for future race relations in France. . . . [It] will be an important source of information on a pivotal moment in recent French history.Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 2011

* Research in African Literatures *

Essential in order to accurately contextualize the complex reformulation of identities on the European landscape.

-- Dominic Thomas

An important contribution to scholarship dealing with contemporary France and post-colonial identities.

-- Lydie Moudileno * University of Pennsylvania *

About Charles Tshimanga

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Frenchness and the African Diaspora

Part 1. Auto da fe: Understanding the 2005 Riots
1. Primitive Rebellion in the French Banlieues: On the Fall 2005 Riots / Didier Lapeyronnie
2. The Republic and Its Beast: On the Riots in the French Banlieues / Achille Mbembe
3. Figures of Multiplicity: Can France Reinvent Its Identity? / Achille Mbembe
4. Outsiders in the French Melting Pot: The Public Construction of Invisibility for Visible Minorities / Ahmed Boubeker

Part 2. Colonization, Citizenship, and Containment
5. From Imperial Inclusion to Republican Exclusion? France's Ambiguous Postwar Trajectory / Frederick Cooper
6. Colonial Syndrome: French Modern and the Deceptions of History / Florence Bernault 7. Transient Citizens: The Othering and Indigenization of Blacks and Beurs within the French Republique / Didier Gondola
8. The Law of February 23, 2005: The Uses Made of the Revival of France's Colonial Grandeur / Nicolas Bancel

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 / Pierre Tevanian
10. Zidane: Portrait of the Artist as Political Avatar / Nacira Guenif-Souilamas
11. The State of French Cultural Exceptionalism: The 2005 Uprisings and the Politics of Visibility / Peter J. Bloom
12. Let the Music Play: The African Diaspora, Popular Culture, and National Identity in Contemporary France / Charles Tshimanga

Appendix 1 A Call to Action: We Are the Natives of the Republic!

Glossary
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Additional information

CIN0253221315G
9780253221315
0253221315
Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France by Charles Tshimanga
Charles Tshimanga
Used - Good
Paperback
Indiana University Press
2009-10-30
352
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