Proud to be a Remix, Part 3: What good is a second tongue?

Before continuing this series, I ask that you make sure that you have read or listened to this essay: Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Colonial Policy by Dr. Saliha Belmessous. This will allow you to put the following discussion of my background and identity in historical context. I thank her profusely for her work…