In this Book
- Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: New Anthropologies of Europe
Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting public debate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism. In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silverstein examines a wide range of social and cultural forms -- from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, sports, literary narratives, and songs -- for what they reveal about postcolonial Algerian subjectivities. Investigating the connection between anti-immigrant racism and the rise of Islamist and Berberist ideologies among the "second generation" ("Beurs"), he argues that the appropriation of these cultural-political projects by Algerians in France represents a critique of notions of European or Mediterranean unity and elucidates the mechanisms by which the Algerian civil war has been transferred onto French soil.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 6 Beur Writing and Historical Consciousness
- pp. 184-212
- Conclusion
- pp. 237-246
- Bibliography
- pp. 255-276