{"id":28717,"date":"2013-02-12T18:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28717"},"modified":"2016-07-11T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T00:03:46","slug":"francois-hollandes-misguided-move-taking-race-out-of-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28717","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Hollande’s misguided move: taking ‘race’ out of the constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fran\u00e7ois Hollande’s misguided move: taking ‘race’ out of the constitution<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2013-02-12<\/p>\n

Alana Lentin<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis
\nUniversity of Western Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n

Val\u00e9rie Amiraux<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of Montreal<\/em><\/p>\n

Not talking about races does not lead naturally to the demise of ‘race thinking’ \u2013 it just obscures the persistent inequalities<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s become something of a commonplace to speak of the US as having entered a post-racial age. Both the right and the left have heralded the end of race, either triumphantly or as a way of dismissing talk of racism as so much political correctness. However, in Europe, the debate about race \u2013 post- or otherwise \u2013 is virtually non-existent compared with North America, where race never really goes away as a topic no matter how much people wish it would. Which is why it is surprising that the issue has become a significant part of Fran\u00e7ois Hollande’s<\/a> term in office. During the French presidential elections last spring, the Socialist candidate pledged to remove the word “race” from the French constitution. Currently, it states that “France shall be an indivisible, secular, democratic and social republic. It guarantees equality before the law for all citizens without distinction of origin, race or religion.” He is promising to effect that change before the summer…<\/p>\n

…If ending racism were as simple as banning the one word, racism would be a thing of the past in Europe where, following the Holocaust, “race” was rightly declared a scientifically bogus term and officially dismissed as adding nothing to the understanding of human difference. However, racism did not simply melt away, as the French anthropologist Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss<\/a>, whose participation in the\u00a0UNESCO<\/a> anti-racist project which led the charge against race from the early 1950s, admitted later…<\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois Hollande’s misguided move: taking ‘race’ out of the constitution The Guardian 2013-02-12 Alana Lentin, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis University of Western Sydney Val\u00e9rie Amiraux, Professor of Sociology University of Montreal Not talking about races does not lead naturally to the demise of ‘race thinking’ \u2013 it just obscures the persistent inequalities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,1467,8,26,394],"tags":[13638,96,13640,2103,13639],"class_list":["post-28717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-alana-lentin","tag-france","tag-francois-hollande","tag-the-guardian","tag-valerie-amiraux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48197,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717\/revisions\/48197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}