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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493213903321

Autore

Chapman Herrick

Titolo

Race in France [[electronic resource] ] : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2004

ISBN

1-78238-179-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FraderLaura L

Disciplina

305.8/00944

305.800944

Soggetti

France -- Politics and government

France -- Race relations

Racism -- France

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

RACE IN FRANCE; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; PART I. REPUBLICAN FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICES; 1. REPUBLICAN ANTI-RACISMAND RACISM; 2. ALBERT SARRAUT AND REPUBLICAN RACIAL THOUGHT; 3. INTERMARRIAGE, INDEPENDENT NATIONALITY, AND THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF FRENCH WOMEN; 4. THE STRANGENESS OF FOREIGNERS; PART II. REPUBLICAN RESPONSES AND POLICIES SINCE THE 1960S; 5. CULTURE-AS-RACE OR CULTURE-AS-CULTURE; 6. IMMIGRATION AND THE SALIENCE OF RACIAL BOUNDARIES AMONG FRENCH WORKERS; 7. ANTI-RACISM WITHOUT RACES; 8. A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES; PART III. NEW DIRECTIONS IN POLICY

9. Color-Blindness at a Crossroads in Contemporary France10. HALF-MEASURES; 11. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT SCIENCES PO; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France. These original essays bring together in one volume new work in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and legal studies. Each of the eleven articles presents fresh research on the tension between a republican tradition in France that has long denied



the legitimacy of acknowledging racial difference and a lived reality in which racial prejudice shaped popular views about foreigners, Jews, immigrants, and colonial people. Seve