‘Good to Think’: The American Reference in French Discourses of Immigration and Ethnicity
‘Good to Think’: The American Reference in French Discourses of Immigration and Ethnicity
Eric Fassin tackles the same theme from a sociology of knowledge angle. He shows how the ‘rhetoric of America’ in France has served the political purposes of French intellectuals, who found in the discourse of culture and ethnicity a welcome replacement for their outworn discourse of class. Fassin thus hints at a sociology of multiculturalism, whose topic is not oppressed groups but intellectuals making claims about them on their behalf.
Keywords: Discrimination, ethnicity, France, immigration, US
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