Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference

Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference
ISBN-10
1782381791
ISBN-13
9781782381792
Category
History
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
2004-06-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Laura L. Frader, Herrick Chapman

Description

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.

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