Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Examining Frenchness and the African Diaspora 3 Part 1. Auto da fé: Understanding the 2005 Riots 1. Primitive Rebellion in the French Banlieues: On the Fall 2005 Riots / Didier Lapeyronnie 21 2. The Republic and Its Beast: On the Riots in the French Banlieues / Achille Mbembe 47 3. Figures of Multiplicity: Can France Reinvent Its Identity? / Achille Mbembe 55 4. Outsiders in the French Melting Pot: The Public Construction of Invisibility for Visible Minorities / Ahmed Boubeker 70 Part 2. Colonization, Citizenship, and Containment 5. From Imperial Inclusion to Republican Exclusion? France’s Ambiguous Postwar Trajectory / Frederick Cooper 91 6. Colonial Syndrome: French Modern and the Deceptions of History / Florence Bernault 120 7. Transient Citizens: The Othering and Indigenization of Blacks and Beurs within the French Republic / Didier Gondola 146 TSHIMANGA_pages.indd 5 8/10/09 10:47:23 AM vi / Contents 8. The Law of February 23, 2005: The Uses Made of the Revival of France’s “Colonial Grandeur” / Nicolas Bancel 167 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 Tévanian 187 10. Zidane: Portrait of the Artist as Political Avatar / Nacira Guénif-Souilamas 205 11. The State of French Cultural Exceptionalism: The 2005 Uprisings and the Politics of Visibility / Peter J. Bloom 227 12. Let the Music Play: The African Diaspora, Popular Culture, and National Identity in Contemporary France / Charles Tshimanga 248 Appendix 1 A Call to Action: “We Are the Natives of the Republic!” 277 Glossary 283 Bibliography 293 List of Contributors 319 Index 323 TSHIMANGA_pages.indd 6 8/10/09 10:47:23 AM ...