Racial Gaslighting in a Non-Racial France

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ID12879599
AuthorsJ Beaman (0000-0002-1645-0968, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume26
Issue4-5
Pages406-417
Publication date2022-08-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary French and Francophone Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1740-9292 • E-ISSN: 1740-9306
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17409292.2022.2107261
OpenAlexW4312615518
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited21

Based on ethnographic research in the Parisian metropolitan region, I use the term racial gaslighting (Davis and Ernest 2019) as an analytic to understand racism and anti-racism in France. Specifically, I focus on mobilization against police violence towards Black and Maghrebin-origin individuals and how activists have to mount anti-racist struggle in a non-racial and anti-racial society. This includes challenges that racism is a concept imported from the United States and that France is a true colorblind society. In doing so, I build upon David Theo Goldberg’s notion of Racial Europeanization, or the idea that race is a problem everywhere but in Europe, where it is instead framed as an exception. Such racial gaslighting is indicative of the continual struggles between the ideology of French Republicanism, and its actual implementation

Anti-racism · Criminology · Ethnography · Ideology · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racial formation theory · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Gender Studies · Healthcare Systems and Practices · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

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