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Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France

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Jean Beaman
2017
Published by: University of California Press
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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 Maghrébin, 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.


Table of Contents

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Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface: Black Girl in Paris

pp. ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp. xi-xiv

1. North African Origins in and of the French Republic

pp. 1-28

2. Growing up French? Education, Upward Mobility, and Connections across Generations

pp. 29-42

3. Marginalization and Middle-Class Blues: Race, Islam, the Workplace, and the Public Sphere

pp. 43-65

4. French Is, French Ain't: Boundaries of French and Maghrébin Identities

pp. 66-83

5. Boundaries of Difference: Cultural Citizenship and Transnational Blackness

pp. 84-92

Conclusion: Sacrificed Children of the Republic?

pp. 93-103

Methodological Appendix: Another Outsider: Doing Race from/in Another Place

pp. 105-111

Notes

pp. 113-126

References

pp. 127-145

Index

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