https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Dual-Identity https://booksandideas.net/Dual-Identity 2026-02-10T07:00:00Z text/html en Victor Lu Huynh Society identity race childhood Cairn.info <p>How do children construct their racial identity? Based on a groundbreaking study of children from so-called “mixed” couples, Solène Brun explores the processes of racialization within family structures.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Power-of-the-Masses https://booksandideas.net/The-Power-of-the-Masses 2025-06-24T14:44:31Z text/html en Arthur Ghins Politics liberalism race nation social classes Cairn.info <p>French liberalism, which first emerged during the Restoration, focused not only on individual rights: it also shaped the history of the mass as a subjugated political entity.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Race-and-the-Republic https://booksandideas.net/Race-and-the-Republic 2025-06-17T05:48:21Z text/html en Claire Miot History race war Double Une Cairn.info <p>The colonial period was eager to classify races according to their biological and cultural dispositions for war. The prejudice would persist through the wars of decolonization.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Advent-of-the-Secularocene https://booksandideas.net/The-Advent-of-the-Secularocene 2024-04-30T06:30:04Z text/html en Jean Baubérot History race environmentalism secularization empire Cairn.info <p>Secularisation is often presented as a Western model that was exported during decolonisation; but according to <span class="caps">M. A.</span> Meziane, it was in fact spread by colonialism itself as an instrument of domination.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Reynaud-Paligot-L-Ecole-aux-colonies https://booksandideas.net/Reynaud-Paligot-L-Ecole-aux-colonies 2023-06-20T14:45:05Z text/html en Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch History Colonialism race schooling Algeria republic Cairn.info <p>What motivated French colonisers to found schools in the Maghreb and Subsaharan Africa? Carole Reynaud-Paligot shows how their superiority complex ended up overcoming their meritocratic ideals and dreams of diversity.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Making-of-Race https://booksandideas.net/The-Making-of-Race 2020-07-27T07:00:00Z text/html en Editorial Team Society History identity race slavery racism <p><i>Books & Ideas</i> is slowing down for the summer and will be offering weekly selections of reviews and essays published over the last year. This week's selection questions the social construction of racial identities, and the history of domination.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Against-the-Grain-of-the-Voice https://booksandideas.net/Against-the-Grain-of-the-Voice 2020-07-06T07:00:00Z text/html en Catherine Rudent Arts gender music race cultural studies popular culture Books and ideas originals electronic music metal music <p>From crooning to auto-tune, the voice is at the heart of popular songs. However, it has proved difficult to study: how can something as personal be analysed? Catherine Rudent provides an overview of current approaches of the voice in popular music studies.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Why-Is-Racial-Justice-Yet-to-Be-Achieved https://booksandideas.net/Why-Is-Racial-Justice-Yet-to-Be-Achieved 2020-06-08T07:00:00Z text/html en Editorial Team Society International United States of America race justice police racism equality Books and ideas originals protests <p>As protests against racism break out all over the world following the murder of George Floyd, Books & Ideas gathers a selection of texts examining the history of these multifaceted discriminations and of the struggles for racial justice.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Black-Men-and-the-Choice-of-Masculinity https://booksandideas.net/Black-Men-and-the-Choice-of-Masculinity 2019-06-24T07:00:00Z text/html en Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz Society Arts race literature Black culture masculinity Books and ideas originals hip-hop <p>Why has authentic blackness been conflated with “being cool” in Northern American inner cities? Thomas C. Williams, an African-American writer living in Paris, is exploring other ways to authenticity and masculinity.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Colour-of-Law https://booksandideas.net/The-Colour-of-Law 2018-11-26T07:00:00Z text/html en Alice Béja Politics International race law segregation Florence Gould Foundation <p>A new anthology provides French translations of key texts in the field of Critical Race Theory, as it has developed over the past 40 years in the United States. They help us to understand the decisive role played by legal discourse and practice in the social, historical, and cultural construction of race.</p>