History
362:
Passions of
the French:
Citizenship, Immigration and Race in
France
since 1815
Monday 5:30
– 8:15pm
BEH 123
Gregory S. Brown
This course explores French politics, society and
culture from the fall of Napoleon to the present. This semester, the course
will focus on a series of specific issues in contemporary French history
– immigration, race and citizenship. As in the
United
States
, the culture and laws of
France
with respect to immigration, race and
citizenship have changed considerably over the last 200 years, and this iss=
ue
is among the most important and controversial in contemporary
France
. Issues to be discussed will
include French colonial history and the history of immigration and citizenship
law in France since 1815, the meaning of race in French culture and French law,
the socio-economic and cultural causes and consequences of immigration in
contemporary France, and the recent debates over immigration including the
creation of a new “Ministry of Immigration and National Identity;
and a new National Museum of Immigration in France.
Required readings (available for purchase at UNLV
Bookstore)
- Begag Azouz, Ethnicity and Equality: France
in
the Balance (Bison Books, 2007) ISBN 978-0803262621 ($14.95)
- Peabody, Sue and Stovall, Tyler, e=
ds., The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in Fran=
ce
(Duke Univ. Press, 2003) 978-0822331179 ($25.95)
- Amselle, Jean-Loup, Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Cust=
om
in France (
Corne=
ll
Univ.
Press,
2003) 978-=
0801487477
($23.00).
- Copypack of articles
: electronic
version available online free of charge.
Schedule of Lectures
and
Reading
Assignments
Monday January 28:
Introduction
Monday February 4:
Overview of Modern French Political History since 1789
Monday February 11:
Ideals of the
French
Republic
: Citizen and
Nation, laicité
Amselle, 1 – 7
Begag, 1 - 33
Patrick Weil, “Lifting the Veil” [copypack]
Bown “Remembering Laicité”
Monday February 18:
President’s Day Recess, No Class
Monday February 25:
Enlightenment Ideals of “Race”
Amselle, 8 – 20
Peabody
,
11 - 41
Monday March 3:
Revolutionary Ideals of Citizenship, Race and National Identity
Peabody
,
73 – 107
Monday March 10: 19th-Century
French colonialism and Ideals of French Culture
Amselle, 32 - 76
Peabody
,
108 - 130
Monday March =
17:
Spring Break, No Class
Monday March =
24: Racial
Theory in the French Empire
Amselle, 77 – 99
Peabody
,
187 – 236; 259 – 280
Monday March =
31: Midterm
review; essay due; no additional reading
Monday April =
7: Religious
Identity and Toleration in French Political Culture
Patrick Weil, “The history and memory of
discrimination in the domain of French nationality” [PDF]
Monday April =
14:
Ideals of Race in 19th-Century French Popular Culture
Peabody
,
131 – 185, 285 - 337
Monday April =
21: Immigration,
Citizenship and Racial Politics in Post-War France
Peabody
,
228 – 370
Heraud, “The National
History Museum: Site of Transmission and Public Education” [PDF]
Monday April =
28: Multi-Culturalism in Contemporary France
Amselle, 100 – 121
Begag, 55 - 128
Monday May 5:
Final Review and Wrap-Up