Race in France : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference

"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. Several authors also examine efforts to combat racism since the 1970s."-- Provided by publisher CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Race in France I. Republican Foundations and Practices 1. Republican Anti-racism and Racism: A Caribbean Genealogy 2. Albert Sarraut and Republican Racial Thought 3. Intermarriage, Independent Nationality, and the Individual Rights of French Women: The Law of 10 August 1927 4. The Strangeness of Foreigners: Policing Migration and Nation in Interwar Marseille II. Republican Responses and Policies since the 1960s 5. Culture-as-Race or Culture-as-Culture: Caribbean Ethnicity and the Ambiguity of Cultural Identity in French Society 6. Immigration and the Salience of Racial Boundaries among French Workers 7. Anti-racism without Races: Politics and Policy in a “Color-Blind” State 8. A Tale of Two Countries: The Politics of Color-Blindness in France and the United States III. New Directions in Policy 9. Color-Blindness at a Crossroads in Contemporary France 10. Half-Measures: Anti-discrimination Policy in France 11. Affirmative Action at Sciences Po Notes on Contributors Index