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/The-Urban-Condition-of-Muslims-in-India https://booksandideas.net/The-Urban-Condition-of-Muslims-in-India 2025-09-12T09:03:01Z text/html en Jules Naudet International Islam Video Interviews city castes segregation <span class="caps">CASBS</span> <p>According to Thomas Blom Hansen, Indian cities have become spaces of exclusion, fear, and sharpened enmity. He describes how Muslims are victims of an entanglement of communal violence, state complicity, and systemic discrimination.</p> https://booksandideas.net/From-Slavery-to-Police-Torture https://booksandideas.net/From-Slavery-to-Police-Torture 2022-10-17T07:40:00Z text/html en Jules Naudet Politics United States of America Video Interviews slavery racism torture segregation <span class="caps">CASBS</span> <p>Laurence Ralph's ethnography explores the various systems of punishment that injure black and brown Americans' bodies and that contribute to maintain social hierarchies that rely on the vestiges of slavery. These injuries call for healing and overcoming trauma, and also for reparative justice.</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> https://booksandideas.net/The-Long-March-for-Equality https://booksandideas.net/The-Long-March-for-Equality 2018-08-30T07:00:00Z text/html en Ary Gordien Politics Society United States of America inequalities race slavery racism equality segregation Florence Gould Foundation civil rights <p>Few histories of the African American fight for equality manage to shed their ideological bias. Caroline Rolland-Diamond offers an impressive overview that goes beyond oppositions to highlight the structuring lines of a two-century-old struggle that continues today.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Segregated-Soldiers-African-Americans-Civil-Rights-and-the-U-S-Military https://booksandideas.net/Segregated-Soldiers-African-Americans-Civil-Rights-and-the-U-S-Military 2015-01-19T06:30:00Z text/html en Olivier Burtin History United States of America army segregation civil rights <p>How can you fight for your country while being denied citizenship? Christine Knauer uncovers the paradox of African-American soldiers in the twentieth century, and their role in the history of the Civil Rights Movement.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Ferguson-and-the-New-Black https://booksandideas.net/Ferguson-and-the-New-Black 2014-11-24T09:23:00Z text/html en François Bonnet & Clément Théry Society International United States of America rebellion police racism segregation Florence Gould Foundation <p>Michael Brown's death and the Ferguson unrest signal a change in the condition of Black people in American society since 2000. This new condition is marked by the culmination of the penal state's power over Black people's lives, and an increase in socio-economic inequalities between races.</p> https://booksandideas.net/My-Crystal-Ball-is-Cloudy-The-Historian-as-Public-Intellectual https://booksandideas.net/My-Crystal-Ball-is-Cloudy-The-Historian-as-Public-Intellectual 2014-11-13T09:00:00Z text/html en Thomas Grillot & Pauline Peretz History United States of America race political theory segregation Text Interviews <p>How is history relevant to current debates about race, economic inequality or the national narrative? A renowned historian of urban crises and segregation, Thomas Sugrue proposes an answer that emphasizes both the value of passion and that of careful scholarship. Historians can and should engage in public debate, but on their own terms.</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>