Setting an Agenda

This chapter explores the way in which antiracist organisations, specifically the Mouvement Contre le Racisme et pour L&s;Amitié 2entre les Peuples, developed agenda-building processes around campaigns for an antiracist law and for antiracist education. It first discusses the campaign for the law against racism, and in the second, the campaign for antiracist education. The chapter documents the campaigns which led to the enactment of legislation against racism, and the way in which they changed antiracists&s; representation of and relations with people directly affected by racism, and helped them refine their understanding of structures of discrimination. The aim of antiracist education was to inform the French about the dangers and social consequences of racism, to publicise specific cases of discrimination, and, after 1972, to provide information about the law against racism. Antiracist education was profoundly affected by the changes which took place in the period since the war.

Political science · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions