The Colonial Legacy in France by Nicolas Bancel HARDBACK 9780253026255

The Colonial Legacy in FranceFracture, Rupture, and Apartheid\nAuthor(s): Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, Dominic Thomas, Alexis Pernsteiner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253026255, 978-0253026255\nSynopsis\nDebates 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 f.