Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. PART 1. The Imperial Nation-State
5. 1. Introduction:Working through the Imperial Nation-State 3
6. 2. Framing Greater France: A Real Abstraction 24
7. PART 2. Colonial Humanism
8. 3. Toward a New Colonial Rationality: Welfare, Science, Administration 43
9. 4. A Doubled and Contradictory Form of Government 76
10. 5. Temporality, Nationality, Citizenship 118
11. PART 3. African Humanism
12. 6. Negritude I: Practicing Citizenship in Imperial Paris 149
13. 7. Negritude II: Cultural Nationalism 201
14. 8. Negritude III: Critique of (Colonial) Reason 256
15. Conclusion: Legacies of the Imperial Nation-State 295
16. NOTES 303
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 363
18. INDEX 387