Decolonization And the Decolonized

by Memmi, Albert

• ISBN13: 9780816647354
• ISBN10: 0816647356
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-24
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert Memmiauthor of the highly influential and groundbreaking work The Colonizer and the Colonizedturns his attention to the present-day situation of formerly colonized peoples. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi expands his intellectual engagement with the subject and examines the manifold causes of the failure of decolonization efforts throughout the world. As outspoken and controversial as ever, Memmi initiates a much-needed discussion of the ex-colonized and refuses to idealize those who are too often painted as hapless victims. He shows how, in light of a radically changed world, it would be problematicand even irresponsibleto continue to deploy concepts that were useful and valid during the period of anticolonial struggle. Decolonization and the Decolonized contributes to the most current debates on Islamophobia in France, the "new" anti-Semitism, and the unrelenting poverty gripping the African continent. Memmi, who is Jewish, was born and raised in Tunis, and focuses primarily on what he calls the Arab-Muslim condition, while also incorporating comparisons with South America, Asia, Black Africa, and the United States. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi has written that rare booka manifesto informed by intellect and animated by passionthat will propel public analysis of the most urgent global issues to a new level. Albert Memmi is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Paris, Nanterre, and the author of Racism (Minnesota, 1997). Robert Bononno, a teacher and translator, lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
The New Citizen	1	(70)
THE GREAT DISILLUSION
A PARADOXICAL POVERTY
CORRUPTION
IMPOSTERS AND POTENTATES
TYRANTS, ZEALOTS, AND SOLDIERS
DIVERSIONS, EXCUSES, AND MYTHS
A CONVENIENT CONFLICT
THE FAILURE OF THE INTELLECTUALS
FICTION AND REALITY
CULTURAL LETHARGY
THE CLERICS' PLOT
FROM REPRESSION TO VIOLENCE
A NATION BORN TOO LATE
NATIONS WITHOUT LAW
A SICK SOCIETY
GOING ABROAD
The Immigrant	71	(74)
THE BLESSINGS OF EXILE
FAILURE TWICE OVER
A NEW REFRAIN
THE GHETTO
HEAD SCARVES AND MÉTISSAGE
HUMILIATION
FROM HUMILIATION TO RESENTMENT
THE SOLIDARITY OF THE VANQUISHED
CORPORATE IDENTITY
ABANDONING THE MYTH OF RETURN
THE IMMIGRANT'S SON
THE ZOMBIE
FROM EXCLUSION TO DELINQUENCY
QUESTIONING INTEGRATION
RECIPROCAL DEPENDENCE
THE LANGUORS OF EUROPE
HOPE FOR THE DECOLONIZED?
TOWARD A NEW WORLD
Afterword	145