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Muslim girls and the other France : race, identity politics, & social exclusion / Trica Danielle Keaton ; foreword by Manthia Diawara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keaton, Trica Danielle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslim girls--France--Social conditions.
- Muslim girls.
- North Africans--Cultural assimilation--France.
- North Africans.
- Veils--Social aspects--France.
- Veils.
- Social conflict--France--Religious aspects.
- Social conflict.
- Marginality, Social--France.
- Marginality, Social.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""[Keaton] provides the most in-depth analysis of the predicament of French Arabs and Africans living in the suburbs of Paris.... [O]ne can read the book through the lens of such great African American writers and activists as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Malcolm X.... [It] contains an implicit warning to you, France, not to repeat the American racism in your country."" -- from the foreword by Manthia Diawara Muslim girls growing up in the outer-cities of Paris are portrayed many ways in
- Contents:
- Unmixing French "national identity"
- Structured exclusion: public housing in the French outer city
- Transmitting a "common culture": symbolic violence realized
- Counterforces: educational inequality and relative resistance
- Beyond identity: Muslim girls and the politics of their existence
- Epilogue: and so it goes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612072895
- 1-282-07289-7
- 0-253-11208-7
- OCLC:
- 476030927
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