Lotem, I. 2018. Beyond memory wars: The indigènes de la république’s grass-roots anti-racism between the memory of colonialism and antisemitism . French History. 32 (4), pp. 573-593. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cry085
| Title | Beyond memory wars: The indigènes de la république’s grass-roots anti-racism between the memory of colonialism and antisemitism |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Lotem, I. |
| Abstract | In the mid-2010s, the expression ‘memory wars’, which had been coined in debates about the role of various commemorations of France’s colonial history, became increasingly identified with an atmosphere of conflict between France’s Jewish population and other minority communities. Simultaneously, conflicts over remembrance of the Holocaust and France’s colonial past characterized a new dynamic of memorial anti-racism. This article examines the trajectory of the Indigènes de la République, an organization that was particularly identified with this kind of memorial anti-racism. Through oral history interviews as well as the organization’s publications and media appearances, this article outlines the role of memory in the growing atmosphere of conflict between Jews and other postcolonial minorities in France and ultimately questions the role of so-called memory wars in the growing conversation about race in the Fifth Republic. |
| Keywords | Memory, anti-racism, anti-Semitism, colonialism |
| Journal | French History |
| Journal citation | 32 (4), pp. 573-593 |
| ISSN | 0269-1191 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cry085 |
| Web address (URL) | https://academic.oup.com/fh/article-abstract/32/4/573/5229360 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 31 Dec 2018 |
| Published online | 04 Dec 2018 |