Black Jacobins in Contemporary France: On Identities on Politics, Decolonial Critique, and the Other Blackness

Thompson, Vanessa E.

doi:10.1080/00380237.2015.1067853

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“…Research on race and the racialisation of regulation in France comes with its own set of challenges, as the French tradition of colour-blind universalism does not acknowledge the existence of racialised processes and governance. However, at the same time, research on race and racism in France has argued that racial logics are embedded within the French Republic, but have never been made explicit (Ceĺestine, 2011;Stoler, 2011;Stovall & Van den Abbeele, 2003;Thompson, 2016).…”

Section: Methods: Tracing Racialisation In the Archivesmentioning

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(Inter)racialization: the regulation of domestic and urban space in housing North African migrants in post-colonial France

Franco

2022

Mig. Pol.

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Literature on immigrant housing and assimilation has shown how housing policies perpetuate, create and contest racial boundaries. This paper argues for the necessity to look at the regulation of domestic space together with the regulation of the urban space. By reading “along” and “against” the archival grain, this paper looks at housing policies that targeted the North-African migrant population in the 1960s and 1970s in France as colonial continuities. French authorities ostensibly encouraged gendered assimilation through spatial politics and interventions in the domestic space. Literature on the French context has shown how this perpetuated racialisation in the housing process. Building upon feminist scholarship on gender, intimacy, and colonialism, this paper shows how these policies did not acknowledge interracialised households and prevented interracialised intimacies. This helps understand how housing policies can reinforce racialised exclusion by regulating racial boundaries in the urban space and the domestic space together.

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(Inter)racialization: the regulation of domestic and urban space in housing North African migrants in post-colonial France

Franco

2022

Mig. Pol.

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“…33 After the mid-2000s, a growing number of scholars offered accounts of French citizenship as a form of Whiteness, rejecting the dominant raceblind universalist ideology of the republic. This turn could have been due to a variety of factors, including well-known social movements such as the so-called "race riots" of 2005, during which minority youth protested racism, exclusion, and a lack of opportunities, but it could also have been due to the broader recognition of the "racial question," in particular the "Black condition," among activists, 34 scholars, and civil society following a number of legal and political controversies. 35 Particularly salient were the debates on colonialism and slavery that prompted and accompanied the passage of a couple of memory laws.…”

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Cohen

Mazouz

2021

French Politics, Culture &Amp; Society

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France is an overwhelmingly majority-White nation. Yet the French majority is reluctant to identify as White, and French social science has tended to eschew Whiteness as an object of inquiry. Inspired by critical race theory and critical Whiteness studies, this interdisciplinary special issue offers a new look at White identities in France. It does so not to recenter Whiteness by giving it prominence, but to expose and critique White dominance. This introduction examines the global and local dimensions of Whiteness, before identifying three salient dimensions of its French version: the ideology of the race-blind universalist republic; the past and present practice of French colonialism, slavery, and rule across overseas territories; and the racialization of people of Muslim or North African backgrounds as non-White.

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Black Jacobins in Contemporary France: On Identities on Politics, Decolonial Critique, and the Other Blackness

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(Inter)racialization: the regulation of domestic and urban space in housing North African migrants in post-colonial France

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