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Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events-the deportations of Nigerians from Dublin, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the uprisings in the Paris suburbs-White reveals a shared quest for social progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.
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Natives against Nativism
Examining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and
antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present
For the pasty fifty years, the Palestinian question has served
as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in
postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the
1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial
groups of the 2000s. In Natives against Nativism , Olivia
C. Harrison explores the intersection of anticolonial solidarity
and antiracist activism from the 1970s to the present.
Natives against Nativism analyzes a wide range of
texts-novels, memoirs, plays, films, and militant archives-that
mobilize the twin figures of the Palestinian and the American
Indian in a crossed critique of Eurocolonial modernity. Harrison
argues that anticolonial solidarity with Palestinians and
Indigenous Americans has been instrumental in developing a
sophisticated critique of racism across imperial formations-in this
case, France, the United States, and Israel.
Serving as the first relational study of antiracism in France,
Natives against Nativism observes how claims to
indigeneity have been deployed in multiple directions, both in the
ongoing struggle for migrant rights and racial justice, and in
white nativist claims in France today.
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Black France, white Europe : youth, race, and belonging in the postwar era
\"Illuminates the entangled history of African decolonization and European integration through the lens of youth. It explores how education reforms and exchange programs to promote solidarity between French and African youth collided with transnational efforts to make young people in Western Europe feel European after World War II\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Africa and France
Africa and France reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production, especially in theatre, literature, film, and even museum construction. A hated of foreigners, accompanied by new forms of intolerance and racism, has crept from policy into popular expressions of ideas about the postcolony and ethnic minorities. Dominic Thomas's stimulating and insightful analyses unravel the complex cultural and political realities of longstanding mobility between Africa and Europe and question the attempt at placing strict limits on what it means to be French or European. Thomas offers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global Frenchness.
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The colonial legacy in France : fracture, rupture, and apartheid
\"Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates on what it means to identify as French. As they document the checkered legacy of French colonialism, the contributors raise questions about France and the contemporary role of Islam, the banlieues, immigration, race, history, pedagogy, and the future of the Republic. This innovative volume reconsiders the cultural, economic, political, and social realities facing global French citizens today and includes contributions by Achille Mbembe, Benjamin Stora, Franًcoise Vergلes, Alec Hargreaves, Elsa Dorlin, and Alain Mabanckou, among others\"--Provided by publisher.
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Frenchness and the African diaspora : identity and uprising in contemporary France
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.
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African immigrant families in another France
\"Immigrant incorporation is a critical challenge for France and other European societies today. Sub-Saharan African immigrant families experience 'Another France.' Racialization is inherent in the immigration process for African migrants, and a low immigrant status is granted, limiting their employment and social integration, and often irrespective of their qualifications or citizenship documents. First and second generation African youth report being, 'French on the inside, African on the out,' because they hold a French mentality, but are continually put into an 'other' category. The 'power of skin' accords this status of 'immigrant other' which infiltrates all social interaction. Further, the practices of a French universalism and secularism taken together have become a straightjacket and 'ostrich policy' for France. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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\There are no slaves in France\ : the political culture of race and slavery in the Ancien Régime
This book examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. The author shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over the meaning of freedom. Based on various archival sources, this work will be of interest not only to historians of slavery and France, but to scholars interested in the emergence of modern culture in the Atlantic world.
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