Dr. Marker’s latest book, Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era (Cornell UP, 2022), offers an historical and transnational perspective on contemporary debates about DEI and higher education across the Global North. The book shows that many hallmarks of DEI discourse today—as well as the backlash against it—date to the immediate postwar years. After the Second World War, France ostensibly embarked on not one, but two, unprecedented efforts to build new kinds of multicultural polities: the democratization of its African empire and the unification of Western Europe. Although these were radically different kinds of political projects, the architects of both looked to youth as the lynchpin of their visions, and they proposed strikingly similar initiatives: curricular and pedagogical reforms; youth and student exchanges; new textbooks; and specialized teacher-training programs. Based on extensive archival research in France, Belgium, Italy, and Senegal, Black France, White Europe explores how efforts to promote solidarity between French and African youth collided with efforts to make young Europeans feel more “European” after World War II. Dr. Marker argues that the way diversity and pluralism was construed in Europe fatally undermined the project to transform France and its empire into a new kind of multiracial democracy. She connects the vision of Europe that coalesced in postwar campaigns for European unity—which coded Europe as white and raceless—Christian and secular, to crucial decisions about what should be taught in African classrooms and how many scholarships should be provided for young Africans to study and train in France. That vision of Europe also informed French responses to African student activism for racial and religious equality, which ultimately turned many young francophone Africans away from France irrevocably. In these and other ways, Black France, White Europe shows that the entangled history of colonial and European youth initiatives is key to explaining why, despite France’s efforts to strengthen ties with its African colonies in the 1940s and 1950s, France became more European during precisely those years.