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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “Herrick Chapman and Laura Frader have done a wonderful job of bringing together a wide range of pathbreaking essays on the topic of race in France, giving a new perspective on what it means to be French in the modern and contemporary era.” · Journal of Modern History
Table of Contents Introduction: Race in France
Herrick Chapman and Laura L. Frader
PART I: REPUBLICAN FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICES
Chapter 1. Republican Anti-racism and Racism: A Caribbean Genealogy
Laurent Dubois
Chapter 2. Albert Sarraut and Republican Racial Thought
Clifford Rosenberg
Chapter 3. Intermarriage, Independent Nationality, and the Individual Rights of French Women: The Law of 10 August 1927
Elisa Camiscioli
Chapter 4. The Strangeness of Foreigners: Policing Migration and Nation in Interwar Marseille
Mary Dewhurst Lewis
PART II: REPUBLICAN RESPONSES AND POLICIES SINCE THE 1960S
Chapter 5. Culture-as-Race or Culture-as-Culture: Caribbean Ethnicity and the Ambiguity of Cultural Identity in French Society
David Beriss
Chapter 6. Immigration and the Salience of Racial Boundaries among French Workers
Michèle Lamont
Chapter 7. Anti-racism without Races: Politics and Policy in a 'Color-Blind' State
Erik Bleich
Chapter 8. A Tale of Two Countries: The Politics of Color-Blindness in France and the United States
Robert C. Lieberman
PART III: NEW DIRECTIONS IN POLICY
Chapter 9. Color-Blindness at a Crossroads in Contemporary France
Gwénaële Calvès
Chapter 10. Half-Measures: Anti-discrimination Policy in France
Alec G. Hargreaves
Chapter 11. Affirmative Action at Sciences Po
Daniel Sabbagh
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
