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Introduction, Mireille Rosello; Dread heads: roles, models, and the Black voice in mainstream news, Paulette M. Caldwell; Hijacking national identities in French sitcoms: stereotypes and gay performance in Les filles d'à côté, Jean Manil; Hallucinations of France and Africa in the Colonial Exhibition of 1931 and Ousmane Socé's Mirages de Paris, Christopher L. Miller; Reflections and confessions on the 'Minority' and Immigrant I.D. Tour, Laura Elisa Pérez & Ali Behdad; The critic as tourist: Hottentot Venuses and comparatist glands, Mireille Rosello; Recipes for resistance: the textualization of minority identity in Edmond de Maleh's Mille ans un jour, Ronnie Scharfman.