Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary France (New York: Routledge,
1995); Peter Sahlins, Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004); Max Silverman, Deconstructing the Nation: Immigration, Racism and Citizenship in Modern France (London:
Routledge, 1992); Patrick Weil, Qu’est-ce qu’un français? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution (Paris: Editions Grasset, 2002). 17
It has positioned a French alternative to globalization, perceived as roughly
synonymous with Anglo-Americanization. See: Philip H. Gordon and Sophie
Meunier, “Globalization and French Cultural Identity,” French Politics, Culture, and Society 19, 1 (Spring 2001): 22-41; Steven Philip Kramer, Does France Still Count? The French Role in the New Europe (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994).
18
See: Albert Demangeon, L’Union française: France et outre-mer (Paris:
Hachette, 1942); Patrick Manning, Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1985 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Dennis Alger, “Francophonie” in the 1990s: Problems and Opportunities (Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1996).
19
See: Catherine A. Reinhardt, Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006);
Françoise Vergès, La Memoire enchaînée: questions sur l'esclavage (Paris: Albin
Michel, 2006); Patrick Weil, ed., L’Esclavage, la colonisation, et après… (Paris:
Éditions des Presses Universitaires de France, 2005).
20
See: Henrice Altink and Sharif Gemie, eds., At the Border: Margins and Peripheries in Modern France (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008); Laurent
Dubois, “La République métissée: Citizenship, Colonialism, and the Borders of
French History,” Cultural Studies 14, 1 (2000): 15-34; Hafid Gafaiti, Patricia M.E.
Lorchin, and David G. Troyansky, eds., Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009). 21
Pierre-André Taguieff, The Force of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles, trans.
and ed. Hassan Melehy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001). On race
in France, see: Herrick Chapman and Laura L. Frader, eds., Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (New York: Berghahn
Books, 2004); Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall, eds., The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003).
22
“Jacques Chirac: La République répare une injustice,” Le Monde, 3 December
2002.
23
Bernard Fillaire, Alexandre Dumas et associé (Paris: Bartillat, 2002), 118.
24
Elisabeth Levy, “La France, une chance pour les immigrés?” Le Figaro Magazine,
7 May 2004, 60.
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25
Claire Andrieu, “Le pouvoir central en France et ses usages du passé, de 1970 à
nos jours,” in Politiques du passé,21; Jean Tulard, Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870 (Paris: Figures et plumes, 2008), 18.
26
Jacques Chirac, President of France, Speech at the Panthéon, November 30, 2002,
in Le Mousquetaire (La Société des Amis d’Alexandre Dumas) 3 (2003), 29-33.
27
Examples: Eric Martone, The Black Musketeer: Reevaluation Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011);
Martone, Finding Monte Cristo; Silvia Marsans-Sakly, “Geographies of Vengeance:
Orientalism in Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo,” The Journal of North