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La fracture coloniale: La societe francaise au prisme de l'heritage colonial
ED. PASCAL BLANCHARD, NICOLAS BANCEL, AND SANDRINE LEMAIRE Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 2005. ISBN 2-7071-4659-5.311 pp.
The debate surrounding the intricacy of French colonial history is certainly not a new one; yet, the fact nevertheless remains that this debate has taken on new vigor in the early years of the twenty-first century as growing economic disparities have further underscored the struggles and challenges faced by France's ethnic minorities, controversial government-sponsored revisionist decrees have exacerbated tensions concerning the very process of recording national memory (these questions will surely inform the programs of the...
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