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Multiculturalism, Intersectionality, and “Post-Identity”
“Sans identité, il n'y a pas de diversité”: “Without identity, there is no diversity.” So stated French President Nicolas Sarkozy in March 2011 in Puy-en-Velay, one of the jumping off points for the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, even as he lauded the “Christian heritage” of the French nation: la “chrétienté a laissé [à la France] … un magnifique héritage de civilization” (“Christianity has given to France a magnificent heritage of civilization”). Lest he appear to have forgotten that France has been self-defined, with great pride and hubris, as a (if not the paradigmatic) secular country since the French revolution in 1789, he immediately thereafter noted his role as “[le] ...
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