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Book SynopsisShows how Muslims strive to gain recognition of their diverse views and backgrounds and find full equality as French citizens.
Trade Review"With xenophobia and anti-immigrant narratives gaining currency is Europe and elsewhere, Fredette’s study is extremely pertinent in its unraveling of the bleak underbellies of republicanism, democracy and the modern nation state in itself. Rightly locating the anti-Muslim discourse as a narrative and affirmative ideology in France, what earmarks Fredette’s study is her intersectional positionality – addressing simultaneously race, gender and ethnic locations of immigrants. Breaking through the homogeneity of official claims on Muslim religiosity, Fredette has moved beyond – with the interviewees at times appropriating or even negating their hybrid identities."--
Anthropology Book Forum Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Why Do We Ask Whether Muslims Can Be French? 2 Elusive Citizenship: The Consequences of an Undesirable Public Identity 3 Claiming Membership: French Muslim Identities, Political Goals, and Repertoires of Contention 4 Education: The (Undelivered?) Promise of Republican Equality 5 Employment: The Muslim Experience in (and out of) the Workplace 6 Housing: The Banlieues as a Geographic and Socially Constructed Place 7 The Contentious Concept of Frenchness: French Muslims Embracing, Reimagining, but Not Rejecting the Republican Triad Appendix: Sample Questionnaire Notes References Index
