Tony S. Jugé

Racism in France

The Civilizing Mission of Whiteness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Race and racism remain difficult topics to address in
France. The
language used to refer to discrimination does not
really allow for any
in-depth discussions about race. The social realities
of race are all
but absent from any national discussions in France. I
contend that
this is in part due to whiteness. France has shied
away from its racist
and colonial past. Through a series of open-ended
surveys followed
by semi-structured interviews, it was revealed that
race is indeed
part of the everyday understandings of how white
French individuals
construct their realities. The language used to
explain who is
French, how to integrate, and what racism is about
contributes to
the reproduction of a historicist racial state
whereby whites maintain
their racial hegemony. Racism continues to be
understood as an
individual problem. Very few respondents were able to
talk about
how French social institutions and policies
negatively affect people
of color on a daily basis. I argue in this research
that whiteness
contributes to an unnamed hegemonic oppression that is
reproduced at the micro and macro levels and is
expressed by
whites through their lack of understanding about race.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 12mm x 150mm x 220mm
• Gewicht: 283g
• ISBN-13: 9783639156072
• ISBN-10: 3639156072
• Artikelnr.: 26443544

Autorenporträt

He is assistant professor of Sociology at Pasadena City College.
He received
his Ph.D. from UC Riverside in 2008. His research focuses on
issues of race,
class and gender inequality, and more particularly on white
privilege.