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This chapter moves to public digital scholarship and engages with recent developments and events in the field and in society at large (e.g., debates around colonial statues, Black Lives Matter in France, etc.). Here Stern provides further evidence of the need for internal work on ourselves (individually and as a discipline), the more inclusive work we need to offer and do with students, and ways to make colonial culture more “audible” in the field and in the classroom.
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Stern, K. (2022). Making the Colonial Present Audible to Our Students and Ourselves. In: Bouamer, S., Bourdeau, L. (eds) Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95357-7_5
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