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Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation

Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation

Paperback

Series: New Anthropologies of Europe

Film StudiesFrench HistoryGeneral Music

ISBN10: 0253217121
ISBN13: 9780253217127
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Oct 1 2004
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting public debate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism. In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silverstein examines a wide range of social and cultural forms--from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, sports, literary narratives, and songs--for what they reveal about postcolonial Algerian subjectivities. Investigating the connection between anti-immigrant racism and the rise of Islamist and Berberist ideologies among the second generation (Beurs), he argues that the appropriation of these cultural-political projects by Algerians in France represents a critique of notions of European or Mediterranean unity and elucidates the mechanisms by which the Algerian civil war has been transferred onto French soil.

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