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/Claiming-Indigenousness-in-India https://booksandideas.net/Claiming-Indigenousness-in-India 2013-02-07T08:00:00Z text/html en Raphael Rousseleau Politics Society India positive discrimination indigenous peoples minorities <p>India has created a National Commission for the Scheduled Tribes, the name given to its indigenous populations. Have the <i>Adivasi</i>, the other name for the Scheduled Tribes, really benefited from the Commission's policies? There, as in many other issues in India, the problem lies in local politics.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Chicago-and-Paris-2-2 https://booksandideas.net/Chicago-and-Paris-2-2 2012-04-27T06:49:12Z text/html en Marco Oberti Society France United States of America education the elite schooling positive discrimination segregation Florence Gould Foundation <p>French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United States, a comparative study of current trends in Paris and Chicago show the opacity of the selection criteria in Paris, and the existence of a clear geographical segregation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Two-cities-with-School-Segregation https://booksandideas.net/Two-cities-with-School-Segregation 2012-04-26T15:36:08Z text/html en Marco Oberti Society Carousel France United States of America education the elite schooling diversity positive discrimination segregation Institut français <p>French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United States, a comparative study of current trends in Paris and Chicago show the opacity of the selection criteria in Paris, and the existence of a clear geographical segregation.</p>