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Book SynopsisExplores the life worlds of Muslim girls and youth of African origin in French society
Trade Review. . . the book's detailed exploration of the lived experiences of immigrant-origin girls and of the identities they form as they navigate the competing demands of home, school, and wider society makes an important ethnographic contribution to the study of postcolonial France.Vol. 40 2008
-- Mayanthi L. Fernando * Washington University, St. Louis *
. . . a call to arms . . . measured and analytic—its cadences are those of a committed, engaged intellectual. Still, for all of its hard-headed, theoretically penetrating analyses, it is also a tender treatise. It is full of love—for girls, who have the right to live fully, and for all marginalized people, who should have all the rights that white French people have.
* Women's Review of Books *
...Keaton turns a sharp eye on the abandonment of national education by the French state. ...Her sensitivity to the dire living conditions of the people she interviews runs through her examination of the orders of structural exclusion in French society that are silently organized and underpinned by economic destitution. ... Keaton has successfully brought to the forefront of her analysis: how the primacy of racism in France continues to subject a material reality with deplorable emotional and physical effects on French Muslim African men and women.Vol.6.2 Spring 2010
-- Ruth Mas * University of Colorado, Boulder *
Table of ContentsForeword by Manthia Diawara
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Unmixing French "National Identity"
2. Structured Exclusion: Public Housing in the French Outer City
3. Transmitting a "Common Culture": Symbolic Violence Realized
4. Counterforces: Educational Inequality and Relative Resistance
5. Beyond Identity: Muslim Girls and the Politics of Their Existence
Epilogue: And So It Goes . . .
Notes
Bibliography
Index
