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Berghahn Books Race in France Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference 2004 Edition by Herrick Chapman, Laura L. Frader
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. Table of contents :- Introduction: Race in FranceHerrick Chapman and Laura L. Frader PART I: REPUBLICAN FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICESChapter 1. Republican Anti-racism and Racism: A Caribbean GenealogyLaurent DuboisChapter 2. Albert Sarraut and Republican Racial ThoughtClifford RosenbergChapter 3. Intermarriage, Independent Nationality, and the Individual Rights of French Women: The Law of 10 August 1927Elisa CamiscioliChapter 4. The Strangeness of Foreigners: Policing Migration and Nation in Interwar Marseille Mary Dewhurst LewisPART II: REPUBLICAN RESPONSES AND POLICIES SINCE THE 1960SChapter 5. Culture-as-Race or Culture-as-Culture: Caribbean Ethnicity and the Ambiguity of Cultural Identity in French SocietyDavid BerissChapter 6. Immigration and the Salience of Racial Boundaries among French WorkersMichele LamontChapter 7. Anti-racism without Races: Politics and Policy in a 'Color-Blind' StateErik BleichChapter 8. A Tale of Two Countries: The Politics of Color-Blindness in France and the United StatesRobert C. LiebermanPART III: NEW DIRECTIONS IN POLICYChapter 9. Color-Blindness at a Crossroads in Contemporary FranceGwenaele CalvesChapter 10. Half-Measures: Anti-discrimination Policy in FranceAlec G. HargreavesChapter 11. Affirmative Action at Sciences PoDaniel SabbaghNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex