Charles Tshimanga is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is author of Youth, Education, and Society in the Congo/Kinshasa, 1890–1960 (in French).Didier Gondola is Associate Professor of African History and African American Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. He is author of The History of Congo.Peter J. Bloom is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism.

"[This] compilation offers a wide perspective on the history and contemporary reality of French immigrant life and the prospects for future race relations in France. . . . [It] will be an important source of information on a pivotal moment in recent French history.Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 2011"—Research in African Literatures"Essential in order to accurately contextualize the complex reformulation of identities on the European landscape."—Dominic Thomas, author of Black France"An important contribution to scholarship dealing with contemporary France and post-colonial identities."—Lydie Moudileno, University of Pennsylvania

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Frenchness and the African DiasporaPart 1. Auto da fé: Understanding the 2005 Riots1. Primitive Rebellion in the French Banlieues: On the Fall 2005 Riots / Didier Lapeyronnie2. The Republic and Its Beast: On the Riots in the French Banlieues / Achille Mbembe3. Figures of Multiplicity: Can France Reinvent Its Identity? / Achille Mbembe 4. Outsiders in the French Melting Pot: The Public Construction of Invisibility for Visible Minorities / Ahmed BoubekerPart 2. Colonization, Citizenship, and Containment5. From Imperial Inclusion to Republican Exclusion? France's Ambiguous Postwar Trajectory / Frederick Cooper6. Colonial Syndrome: French Modern and the Deceptions of History / Florence Bernault7. Transient Citizens: The Othering and Indigenization of Blacks and Beurs within the French République / Didier Gondola8. The Law of February 23, 2005: The Uses Made of the Revival of France's "Colonial Grandeur" / Nicolas BancelPart 3. Visions and Tensions of Frenchness9. A Conservative Revolution within Secularism: The Ideological Premises and Social Effects of the March 15, 2004, "Anti-Headscarf" Law / Pierre Tévanian10. Zidane: Portrait of the Artist as Political Avatar / Nacira Guénif-Souilamas11. The State of French Cultural Exceptionalism: The 2005 Uprisings and the Politics of Visibility / Peter J. Bloom12. Let the Music Play: The African Diaspora, Popular Culture, and National Identity in Contemporary France / Charles TshimangaAppendix 1A Call to Action: "We Are the Natives of the Republic!"GlossaryBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex