The colonial past frames present-day French debates but rarely German ones

Evidence

Third, the colonial past and its remembrance in France have become a sort of frame of reference, a background against which social and political problems and conflicts of present-day society such as racism and discrimination are described and carried out. In Germany, this has been generally less the case. Only in very few instances has the history of the expulsion been used in current political discourse, most recently in the debates about the increased inflow of refugees into Germany in 2015. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 102

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s broader research on how a manufactured/vivid external history is mobilized as a frame for current moral panics and out-group targeting. — connects to: Europe’s colonial past remains constitutive, not an ended epoch — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 826; Official French colonial memory remains unchanged into the 1990s — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 867; Europe’s colonial past is irreversible and constitutive of its present identity — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 826 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Europe’s colonial past remains constitutive, not an ended epoch #corroborates (0.78) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 826
• Europe’s colonial past is an ongoing transformative project rather than a closed epoch #corroborates (0.78)
• Europe’s colonial past is irreversible and constitutive of its present identity #corroborates (0.76) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 826
• German and French race-thinking served opposite political purposes #corroborates (0.74)
• Official French colonial memory remains unchanged into the 1990s #qualifies (0.72) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 867