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Kathryn A. Kleppinger, Branding the 'Beur' Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015). In this skilfully conceived, carefully researched, and richly informative book, [...]

The inadequacy of government efforts to curb discrimination against postcolonial minorities, referred to in everyday discourse as 'Arabs,' 'Muslims,' and 'blacks,' is a major weakness in French public policy, feeding [...]

Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaisse, Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006). This is by far the most comprehensive and best documented [...]

In the twenty years since Pierre Nora began publishing his landmark work on Les Lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984-92), the study of memory, especially in its collective forms, has become [...]

In the twenty years since Pierre Nora began publishing his landmark work on Les Lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984-92), the study of memory, especially in its collective forms, has become [...]

Introduction The emergence of a second generation among the Maghrebi population in France was marked during the 1980s by the popularization of a new term, Beur(s). By the end of [...]

Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper, Muslims and the State in Britain, France and Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). This book sets out to compare the responsiveness of [...]