Africa and France Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism [Paperback]

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 Thomass 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.

[This book's] astonishing breadth and documentation make it a worthwhile read for anyone interested in Frances colonial legacy today.

Overall, this is an excellent book. . . . One might regret that not much attention is paid to the African side of the postcolonial Franco-African world. But if the aim of the book was to complicate French and European debates on identity and singularity, there is no doubt that this incisive study has brilliantly succeeded.

[A]n impressive piece of scholarship . . . well written. Therefore, I strongly recommend it to university libraries, academic departments in the field of French studies, and scholars and students of African studies.Winter 2015Africa and France is a noteworthy contribution to our current understanding of the impact of globalization on discussions of national identity and the construction of frameworks of social belonging.46.1 Spring 2015

Acknowledgments

Introduction: France and the New World Order
1. Museology and Globalization: The Quai Branly Museum
2. Object/Subject Migration: The National Centre for the History of Immigration
3. Sarkozy's Law: National Identity and the Institutionalization of Xenophobia
4. Africa, France, and Eurafrica in the Twenty-First Century
5. From milÃ'