Citizen Outsider Children of North African Immigrants in France / Jean Beaman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaman, Jean, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of immigrants--France.

Children of immigrants.

North Africans--France--Ethnic identity.

North Africans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 152 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press 2017

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017].

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of Maghrebin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface : black girl in Paris

Introduction : North African origins in and of the French Republic

Growing up French? : education, upward mobility, and connections across generations

Marginalization and middle-class blues : race, Islam, the workplace, and the public sphere

French is, french ain't : boundaries of French and Maghrebin identities

Boundaries of difference : cultural citizenship and transnational blackness

Conclusion : sacrificed children of the Republic?

Methodological appendix : another outsider : doing race from/in another place.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-145) and index.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780520967441

0520967445

OCLC:

1085926164

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access