Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance

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Index affirmative action, xxvi, 99, 103–4, 116 African Americans: civil rights movement of, xxvi, 103; Great Migration of, xxvi Africagora, 48 Algeria: historic battles in, 28–29, 108; immigrant populations in France, xxvi, 15–17; independence of, 13; Muslim populations in, xvii, 129nn8–9; Sétif region of, 29, 135–36n13. See also Maghreb; Maghrebis; North Africa Arab(s), xv, 12, 20, 106–7, 135n9, 135n11; and antiArab racism, 12, 106–7 ascenseur social, 53 atomization, 75 Aziz, Tarek, 27 Baldwin, James, 43, 73 banlieues: car burnings in, 41– 42; confines of, xi; as disadvantaged urban areas, viii, ix, xx–xxi, xxiii; in Lyon, 14, 26, 73; in Paris, xiii–xiv, 13, 79, 80–81; as territories, 40. See also specific city 143 144 index Begag, Azouz: as cabinet minister , vii–viii; childhood of, viii; on evolution of French society, viii; identity check experienced by, 1–5, 25, 26, 27, 132–33n2; Legion of Honor awarded to, 3, 4; on parents' homeland, 135–36n13; on positive discrimination , 110–11; on social and ethnic disorder in France, vii–viii, 129nn2–3 beurgeoisie, xii, 48 Beurs: diaspora of, 127; in Footlocker sales, 45; movement of, xxvi, 30, 86–87; as second-generation Maghrebis, ix, xvii, 4, 20, 130n9; in security industry, 93 bin Laden, Osama, 26 Black Panthers, 111 blacks, 20, 93 Blandan, Pierre-Hippolyte, 28, 29, 30, 108 blindé, être, 45 bolos, 82–83 Les Bosquets, 80–81 Bourdieu, Pierre, 98 Boutih, Malek, 89 brand-name goods, 44–45, 48 Brazil, 49 Brevet d'Etudes Profesionnelles (bep), 83 Brigade Anti-Criminalité, 16 Brigade Anti-Crouilles, 16 Bush, George W., 67 caillera, xvii, 43, 48 Castoriadis, Cornelius, 70 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs), 64, 110, 133n1 Chevènement, Jean-Pierre, xvi Chirac, Jacques, 88 cités, xxi, 36–37 cities: forms of violence in, 35; public spaces in, 35–37 Civil Rights Act, 103 civil rights movement, xxvi, 103 Clichy-sous-Bois, xvi colonialism, xxvi–xxviii Columbia, 49 communautarisme, xviii–xix, xx, 88 Communist Party, 54 competition model of equal opportunity, 97–99 Comte, Auguste, 93 concrete action, 103 Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France, 48 Constantine (Bey Ahmed of), 29, 108 Copé, Jean-François, 107–8 core identity, 68 index 145 Costil, Jean, 15 La Courneueve, 52 critical reasoning, 65–67 crouille, 16 Curie, Marie, 71 Curie, Pierre, 71 Dallas, 85 Debbouze, Jamel, 79, 125 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 5 déclassement, 35 La Défense, 94 Delorme, Christian, 15 democracy, construct of, 36, 75, 76 député, 53 Dermouche, Aïssa, 106 dérouilleurs: in French society, 47–48, 80–81, 83; identity of, 50–51, 80–81; independence of, 78, 79–80; narratives of, 80; political vision/roles of, 17, 84–85; social meanings of, 124; as subgroup of young ethnics, xii, 42; très grandes dérouilleurs in, 127 Les Dérouilleurs, 48 descendants de colonisés, 20 d’Estaing, Valéry Giscard, 12 de Villepin, Dominique, 9, 131n1 diabetes, 55–56, 58 discrimination: in daily life, 101–2; direct and indirect forms of, 100–102; forms of, 46, 133n6; in hiring practices, 100; as inequality of opportunity, 100–101, 134n5; policies against, xix–xx, xxvii–xxviii, 11–12, 131n3 la discrimination positive. See positive discrimination distance, 70, 84 La Duchère, 31, 52–53, 110 Ecole Léo Lagrange, 60 Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ena), 53 Ecole Sergent-Blandan, 27, 28 economy, slowdown of, xxviii, 11 Education, Ministry of, 30 egalitarianism, 97 electoral market, 87 Elias, Norbert, 22 Ellison, Ralph, 32 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (eeoc), 105 equalization, 97 Equal Opportunities Law, xxvii–xxviii equal opportunity: in France, xviii, 36, 46, 49, 91–115, 116–17; myth of, 97–100; in 146 index equal opportunity (cont.) United States, 99, 103–5, 109–10, 116 Essonne, 95 ethnicization, xi ethnic monitoring, 105–14, 115, 117–18 ethno-communautarisme, 110–11 European Union (eu), 101 figurative suicide, 39–40 Footlocker, 45 Français d’origine maghrébine, 107 Franco-Algériens, 20 Franco-arabes, 20 Franco-Marocains, 20 French North Africa, ix, xxiv French Revolution, xix Front National, xxviii, 84 Galileo, 62, 66 da Gama, Vasco, 71 gangs: cohesive beliefs of, 77–90; isolation of, 96; territorial identities of, 95–96 Gendarmerie nationale, 118–19 gend’info, 118 geographic space, 68 ghettos, xxi, 49 “going downtown,” 51, 82 Le Gone du Cha...