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Collective terms : race, culture, and community in a state-planned city in France / Beth S. Epstein.
LIBRA HN49.C6 E77 2011
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Van Pelt Library HN49.C6 E77 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Beth.
- Series:
- Berghahn monographs in French studies ; v. 10.
- Berghahn monographs in French studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development--France--Cergy.
- Community development.
- Minorities--France--Cergy.
- Minorities.
- Acculturation--France--Cergy.
- Acculturation.
- Cergy (France).
- France--Cergy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Writing in response to the perceived ethnocultural crisis of the French banlieues, the author explores how people in Cergy negotiate and construct ethnocultural, racial, national and other categories in relation to their histories, the push and pull of everyday life, and in relation to contested understandings of French republicanism. Focused on the experiences of West African immigrants in particular, she is concerned with contested understandings of the role of culture and race in the public sphere and the collective reproduction of community, in debates over social exclusion, and in the public display of culture. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857450845
- 0857450840
- OCLC:
- 650504676
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