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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820681003321

Autore

Keaton Trica Danielle

Titolo

Muslim girls and the other France [[electronic resource] ] : race, identity politics, & social exclusion / / Trica Danielle Keaton ; foreword by Manthia Diawara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786612072895

1-282-07289-7

0-253-11208-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

305.235/2/0882970944

Soggetti

Muslim girls - France - Social conditions

North Africans - Cultural assimilation - France

Veils - Social aspects - France

Social conflict - France - Religious aspects

Marginality, Social - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Unmixing French "national identity" -- Structured exclusion: public housing in the French outer city -- Transmitting a "common culture": symbolic violence realized -- Counterforces: educational inequality and relative resistance -- Beyond identity: Muslim girls and the politics of their existence -- Epilogue: and so it goes.

Sommario/riassunto

""[Keaton] provides the most in-depth analysis of the predicament of French Arabs and Africans living in the suburbs of Paris.... [O]ne can read the book through the lens of such great African American writers and activists as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Malcolm X.... [It] contains an implicit warning to you, France, not to repeat the American racism in your country."" -- from the foreword by Manthia Diawara Muslim girls growing up in the outer-cities of Paris are portrayed many ways in