Reconceptualizing the Republic: Diversity and Education in France, 1945-2008
Reconceptualizing the Republic: Diversity and Education in France, 1945-2008
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重新构想共和国:法国的多样性和教育,1945-2008
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10.1162/jinh.2010.41.1.97
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2010
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Soysal Y
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Soysal Y
Since the nineteenth century, France, not unlike the United States, has experienced significant immigration and, as a result, great flux. Yet, the French public discourse and policy instruments concerned with ethnic and racial diversities evolved in sharp contrast to those in the United States. Whereas U.S. nation-building incorporated the recognition of ethnoracial identities, with all of its trials and tribulations, the French nation's trajectory assumed a unitary form. Recent developments, however, point to changes in the Republic's projection of its identity and its citizenry. An analysis of school teaching finds that the Republic is now re-envisioned as open and tolerant of diversity, though more from a universalistic, normative perspective—increasingly indexed at the transnational level—than from a perspective that privileges France's immigrant and colonial past.