Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France

170 Pages·2017·6.155 MB·English

by  Jean Beaman

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Citizen Outsider

Citizen Outsider
Children of North African Immigrants in France
Jean Beaman
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© 2017 by Jean Beaman
Suggested citation: Beaman, Jean. Citizen Outsider: Children of North
African Immigrants in France. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.39
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Beaman, Jean, 1980– author.
Title: Citizen outsider : children of North African immigrants in France /
   Jean Beaman.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] |
   Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017022042 (print) | LCCN 2017024014 (ebook) | ISBN
   9780520967441 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520294264 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: North Africans—France—Ethnic identity. | Children of
   immigrants—France
Classification: LCC DC34.5.N67 (ebook) | LCC DC34.5.N67 B395 2017
   (print) | DDC 305.23089/92761044—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017022042
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Preface: Black Girl in Paris ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. North African Origins in and of the French Republic 1
2. Growing up French? Education, Upward Mobility, and
Connections across Generations 29
3. Marginalization and Middle-Class Blues: Race, Islam, the
Workplace, and the Public Sphere 43
4. French Is, French Ain’t: Boundaries of French and
Maghrébin Identities 66
5. Boundaries of Difference: Cultural Citizenship and
Transnational Blackness 84
Conclusion: Sacrificed Children of the Republic? 93
Methodological Appendix: Another Outsider: Doing Race from/in
Another Place 105
Notes 113
References 127
Index 147

Illustrations
MAP
1. Parisian metropolitan region 5
FIGURES
1. Nanterre, a western banlieue of Paris 55
2. Covers of two French newsmagazines, L’Express and Le Point 68
3. Place de la République 96
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