- American Studies, Human Geography, Urban Geography, Youth gangs, Gang Culture and Dynamics, Cultural Studies, and 12 moreSociology, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Minority Studies, Political Representation, Black/Latino Tensions, Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Race and Racism, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought, Postcolonial Studies, and Ramón Grosfogueledit
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Cet article s’intéresse à la façon dont le film Bound by honor (« Les princes de la ville » en français), sorti en 1993, décrit différents usages d’une mémoire collective indigène construite autour du concept de Raza et du mythe aztèque... more
Cet article s’intéresse à la façon dont le film Bound by honor (« Les princes de la ville » en français), sorti en 1993, décrit différents usages d’une mémoire collective indigène construite autour du concept de Raza et du mythe aztèque d’Aztlán. Il s’agira d’opérer un certain nombre d’allers-retours entre la réalité et la fiction afin de mettre en perspective ce que montre le film, à la fois dans le contexte de la période qu’il se propose de traiter (1972-1984), et dans le contexte de sa sortie en salle (début des années 1990). Nous décrirons, d’une part, comment le processus de réappropriation d’un héritage perdu largement fantasmé a contribué à la consolidation interne d’un groupe ethno-racial (les Chicanos) dans une triple perspective (artistique, politique et criminelle) et, d’autre part, de réfléchir à la façon dont tout cela est passé au tamis de l’industrie hollywoodienne. En effet, si Bound by honor fournit un éclairage sur l’importance de la construction et de la mobilisation d’une mémoire collective à des fins politiques, le prisme occidentalo-centré par lequel il déroule son propos (un white gaze typique du contexte géographique et historique dans lequel il a été produit) contribue à ce que nous appellerons une patrimonialisation exogène qui renforce les stéréotypes traditionnels développés par le cinéma hollywoodien sur les hommes latinos.
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Après une nouvelle série de manifestations antiracistes violentes dans les rues des villes étatsuniennes à l’été 2020, nous nous efforçons dans cet article d’analyser le sens de ces soulèvements urbains ainsi que la façon dont cette... more
Après une nouvelle série de manifestations antiracistes violentes dans les rues des villes étatsuniennes à l’été 2020, nous nous efforçons dans cet article d’analyser le sens de ces soulèvements urbains ainsi que la façon dont cette matérialisation du désordre est perçue à la fois par ceux qui en sont les protagonistes et par ceux qui le craignent et s’en offusquent. Nous avançons notamment l’idée que, loin d’être une catastrophe pour l’ensemble des membres d’une société, le désordre a surtout une connotation négative pour ceux qui le perçoivent comme remettant en cause leur statut de dominants.
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The editors asked four French scholars specializing in American studies a series of five questions regarding their experience of conducting fieldwork, the challenges they faced, and how they met them. The following is a collaborative... more
The editors asked four French scholars specializing in American studies a series of five questions regarding their experience of conducting fieldwork, the challenges they faced, and how they met them. The following is a collaborative contribution, a discussion among the four contributors. The four authors are Yohann Le Moigne (University of Angers), who is a specialist of turf-based gang rivalries in the Los Angeles metropolitan area; Caroline Laurent (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), who does research on casinos on Indian reservations in the Midwest; Rim Latrache (University of Paris 13 Villetaneuse), who specializes on the construction and expression of Arab and Muslim identities in the United States; and Mathieu Bonzom (University of Orléans), whose work focuses on Latin immigrants and their participation in the labor movement.
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The need to contend with greater diversity in cities raises the question of the level and timbre of group interactions. This study examines how diversity at a small scale operates and the conditions under which it may lead to true... more
The need to contend with greater diversity in cities raises the question of the level and timbre of group interactions. This study examines how diversity at a small scale operates and the conditions under which it may lead to true engagement, parallel lives, detachment, or hostility. The site is the multicultural Parisian neighbor-hood of Belleville, with a focus on the behaviors and attitudes of merchants who work there. Data gathering comprised observation and examination of neighborhood dynamics, the distribution of various businesses, and the nature of customer and everyday traffic as well as 34 structured interviews. Our findings show the significant Chinese population and businesses separated from the rest of the district and the other businesses. This separation is reinforced with a large degree of mutual distrust. However, relations between Arabs and Jews, tense at larger scales, are harmonious though increasingly tinged by outside worries. Multicultural relations observed on the ground differ from those apparent at larger scales, reaffirming the importance of place and local circumstances.
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This article aims at offering an American perspective on the study of Seine-Saint-Denis, a territory that has been the subject of numerous negative representations and that has often been compared to American ghettos. Like many American... more
This article aims at offering an American perspective on the study of Seine-Saint-Denis,
a territory that has been the subject of numerous negative representations and that has often been compared to American ghettos. Like many American scholars, we use the concept of « race » (understood as a social construct) as a key lens for understanding geography and geopolitics. But France famously denies the validity of this lens. Both race as a critical analytical tool and Seine-Saint-Denis are the subject of distorting representations which prevent us from understanding their complexity. Consequently and in a comparative perspective, we will focus on three facets of this racial lens (racial politics, racialized stigma and questions of representation) to show both the complexity and utility of race as a concept, and the diversity and complexity of Seine-Saint-Denis as a place.We will insist on the necessity to develop a French way of understanding race in order to deconstruct fantasies and stereotypes, to struggle against the essentialization of racialized territories such as Seine-Saint- Denis, and to better comprehend the processes of domination at work in French society.
a territory that has been the subject of numerous negative representations and that has often been compared to American ghettos. Like many American scholars, we use the concept of « race » (understood as a social construct) as a key lens for understanding geography and geopolitics. But France famously denies the validity of this lens. Both race as a critical analytical tool and Seine-Saint-Denis are the subject of distorting representations which prevent us from understanding their complexity. Consequently and in a comparative perspective, we will focus on three facets of this racial lens (racial politics, racialized stigma and questions of representation) to show both the complexity and utility of race as a concept, and the diversity and complexity of Seine-Saint-Denis as a place.We will insist on the necessity to develop a French way of understanding race in order to deconstruct fantasies and stereotypes, to struggle against the essentialization of racialized territories such as Seine-Saint- Denis, and to better comprehend the processes of domination at work in French society.
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As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new investment from long histories of both multiculturalism and race‑based stigmatization. But these are histories that the... more
As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new investment from long histories of both multiculturalism and race‑based stigmatization. But these are histories that the economic and political authors of the new Paris appear to want to erase. This essay's four authors deconstruct the renderings on billboards created to represent newly renovated banlieue, reflecting on why France's imagined future is unrepresentative of the nation's ethnic and racial diversity.