Colonial Culture in France Since the Revolution

This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity. 

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Introduction: The Creation of a Colonial Culture in France, from the Colonial Era to the "Memory Wars"

Part I. The Creation of a Colonial Culture - Foreword: French Colonization: an Inaudible History 

• Anti-Slavery, Abolitionism, and Abolition in France from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the 1840s
• Milestones in Colonial Culture under the Second Empire (1851-1870)
• Exhibitions, Expositions, Media Coverage, and the Colonies (1870-1914)
• Science, Scientists, and the Colonies (1870-1914)
• Literature, Song, and the Colonies (1900-1920)
• Entertainment, Theater, and the Colonies (1870-1914)
• School, Pedagogy, and Colonies (1870-1914)
• Dying: the Call of the Empire (1913-1918)

Part II. Conquering Public Opinion - Foreword: History's Mark (1931-1961)

• Dreaming: the Fatal Attraction of Colonial Cinema (1920-1950)
• Spreading the Word: the Agence Générale des Colonies (1920-1931)
• To Civilize: the Invention of the Native (1918-1940)
• Selling the Colonial Economic Myth (1900-1940
• The Athletic Exception: Black Champions and Colonial Culture (1900-1939)
• The Colonial Bath: Sources of Popular Colonial Culture (1918-1931)
• The Colonial Exposition (1931)
• National Unity: the Right and Left "Meet" around the Colonial Exposition (1931)

Part III. The Apogee of Imperialism - Foreword: Images of an Empire's Demise

• Colonizing, Educating, Guiding: A Republican Duty
• Promotion: Creating the Colonial (1930-1940)
• Influence: Cultural and Ideological Agendas (1920-1940)
• Education: Becoming "Homo Imperialis" (1910-1940)
• Manipulation: Conquering Taste (1931-1939)
• Control: Paris, a Colonial Capital (1931-1939)
• Imperial Revolution: Vichy's Colonial Myth (1940-1944)
• Colonial Economy: Between Propaganda Myths and Economic Reality (1940-1955)
• French Unity: The Dream of a United France (1946-1960)

Part IV. Toward the Postcolony - Foreword: Moussa the African's Blues

• Decolonizing France: the "Indochinese Syndrome" (1946-1954)
• Immigration: the Emergence of an African Elite in the Metropole (1946-1961)
• Immigration: North Africans Settle in the Metropole (1946-1961) 
• Crime: Colonial Violence in the Metropole (1954-1961)
• Modernism, Colonialism, and Cultural Hybridity
• The Meanders of Colonial Memory - 32. The Impossible Revision of France's History (1968-2006)
• National History and Colonial History: Parallel Histories (1961-2006)
• The Illusion of Decolonization (1956-2006)
• The Impossible Colonial Museum

Part V. The Time of Inheritance - Foreword: The Age of Contempt, or the Legitimization of France's Civilizing Mission

• Trouble in the Republic: Disturbing Memories, Forgotten Territories
• Competition between Victims
• The Army and the Construction of Immigration as a Threat (1961-2006)
• Postcolonial Culture in the Army and the Memory of Overseas Combatants (1961-2006)
• Republican Integration: Reflections on a Postcolonial Issue (1961-2006)
• Colonial Influences and Tropes in the Field of Literature
• From Colonial History to the Banlieues (1961-2006)
• Can We Speak of A Postcolonial Racism? (1961-2006)
• From Colonial Stereotypes to the Postcolonial Gaze: the Need for an Evolution of the Imaginary
• Post-Colonial Cinema, Song, and Literature: Continuity or Change? (1961-2006)
• Ethnic Tourism: Symbolic Reconquest? (1961-2006)
• Francophonie and Universality: the Evolution of Two Entangled Ideas (1961-2006)- Bibliography - Contributors