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" France between Europe and Africa: Youth, race, and envisioning the postwar world, 1940-1960 "
Emily Marker
Auslander, Leora
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804269
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TL49093
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1850522005; 10239408
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Chufa, Masresha M.
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France between Europe and Africa: Youth, race, and envisioning the postwar world, 1940-1960\ Emily MarkerAuslander, Leora
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The University of Chicago
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2016
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Ph.D.
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History
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2016
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360
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Committee members: Bradley, Mark P.; Goldstein, Jan E.; Osborn, Emily L.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-43846-8
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This is a dissertation about youth and the horizons of belonging in postwar France as France attempted to negotiate its position between its old African empire and the new Europe after World War II. I argue that postwar French officials approached imperial renewal in Africa and European unity as “generational projects” that enlisted youth as critical agents in the establishment of fundamentally new kinds of pluralist, democratic, and postnational polities. To overcome colonial domination in the empire and national division in Europe, French politicians, administrators and educators proposed a vast array of education reforms and youth programs in the hopes of stimulating European integration and imperial renewal from the ground up. These proposals shared a good deal in common, despite the radically different political and material situations of postwar French Africa and Western Europe; in both contexts, they focused on making curricular and pedagogical changes to primary and secondary schooling, revising history textbooks, building new institutions of higher education, and developing youth and student exchange programs to unite diverse populations.
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African history; European history; World History
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Social sciences;Africa;Decolonization;Europe;France since 1945;Race and racism;Youth
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Auslander, Leora
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HistoryThe University of Chicago
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