Some thoughts by way of a preface / Henri Alleg -- Contributors -- Introduction / Patricia M. E. Lorcin -- pt. 1. Identity reconsidered. Migrations, legal pluralism, and identities: Algerian "expatriates" in colonial Tunisia / Julia Clancy-Smith -- "I went pale with pleasure": the body, sexuality, and national identity among French travelers to Algiers in the nineteenth century / Victoria Thompson -- Shaping the colonial body: sport and society in Algeria, 1870-1962 / Philip Dine -- "Unknown and unloved": the politics of French ignorance in Algeria, 1860-1930 /Seth Graebner -- Assimilation, cultural identity, and permissible deviance in francophone Algerian writing of the interwar years / Peter Dunwoodie -- The politics of solidarity: radical French and Algerian journalists and the 1954 Orléansville earthquake / Yaël Simpson Fletcher -- pt. 2. Memory or forgetting. "They swore upon the tombs never to make peace with us": Algerian Jews and French colonialism, 1845-1848 / Joshua S. Schreier -- Entering history: the memory of police violence in Paris, October 1961 / Joshua Cole -- Memory in history, nation building, and identity: teaching about the Algerian war in France / Jo McCormack -- Pieds-noirs, bêtes noires: anti-"European of Algeria" racism and the close of the French empire / Todd Shepard -- The Harkis: history and memory / William B. Cohen -- Language and politics: a new revisionism / Habiba Deming -- pt. 3. Nostalgia. Tattoos or earrings: two models of historical writing in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers / Mireille Rosello -- Generating migrant memories / Alec G. Hargreaves -- Derrida's nostalgeria / Lynne Huffer -- Confronting the past: the memory work of second-generation Algerians in France / Richard l. Derderian -- The return of the repressed: war, trauma, memory in Algeria and beyond / David Prochaska.