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Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism & the Rule of Custom in France
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Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism & the Rule of Custom in France Paperback - 2003

by Jean-Loup Amselle

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Cornell. New. Fine. Paperback. 2003. Originally published at $31.95.
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  • Title Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism & the Rule of Custom in France
  • Author Jean-Loup Amselle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Condition New
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell
  • Date 2003-04-23
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # W113453b
  • ISBN 9780801487477 / 0801487471
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.34 x 6.42 x 0.46 in (21.18 x 16.31 x 1.17 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Library of Congress subjects Multiculturalism - France, Muslims - France
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002153020
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

From the publisher

Jean-Loup Amselle explores the issue of multiculturalism by delving into the history of France's confrontation with ethnic difference. Amselle analyzes France's relationship to Egypt, Algeria, and Senegal to show how ideas about difference and assimilation played out in French colonial policies and how these same tensions continue to be problematic as France grapples with cultural pluralism.Amselle's book has timely and wide-ranging implications. Arguing against the "liberal communitarian state" as it exists in the United States, Amselle contends that an overemphasis on difference can lead to what he calls "affirmative exclusion"--the flip side of affirmative action. The recognition of a multiplicity of ethnic groups in France, he asserts, creates an environment that fosters racism. "Despite an outward appearance of generosity, supporters of French-style multiculturalism, by promoting 'affirmative action, ' run the risk of creating as many difficulties as there are 'target groups, ' which they have helped identify and hence produce."Calling on theories of racial difference devised by early anthropologists--most notably, Louis Faidherbe--and on the work of political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Amselle makes historical and sociological sense of the debates over multiculturalism and the violence they engender. Toward a French Multiculturalism proposes directions for the future.

First line

To indicate the space where the principle of republican assimilation confronts that of difference management as it was practiced in the former French colonies and as it continues to be articulated in France, let us first evaluate how these two principles have been combined in the science claiming to study human beings in both their unity and their diversitynamely, anthropology.

About the author

Jean-Loup Amselle is Directeur d'etudes a l'ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales and the author of many books, including Mestizo Logics: Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere. Jane Marie Todd is the translator of five books published by Cornell, most recently What Ought I to Do? Morality in Kant and Levinas by Catherine Chalier.