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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

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

Glossary283

Bibliography 293

List of Contributors 319

Index 323