{"id":4223,"date":"2008-03-12T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T07:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/12\/podcast-politics-of-the-veil-in-france\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T07:20:58","slug":"podcast-politics-of-the-veil-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4223","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Politics of the Veil in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you listen to audio lectures, this one<\/a> is interesting. It’s a presentation by Professor Joan Wallach Scott, of Princeton<\/del>. Scott talks about her book, Politics of the Veil<\/em>, which criticizes France’s policy forbidding “conspicuous signs” of religion worn by students in public schools (despite the facade of neutrality the policy is unquestionably aimed at Muslims). You can read a chapter from her book here<\/a>, and the Nation<\/em>‘s review of it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Journalist Yasmin Alibhai Brown, who has sworn never to return to France because of the virulent anti-Muslim racism she encounters there, critiques much of Scott’s presentation. Both speakers are excellent.<\/p>\n

One thing that I found interesting is that, although France is often admired by US liberals and loathed by US conservatives, the French approach to multiculturalism is in many ways similar to that advocated by American conservatives (that’s my interpretation, not Scott’s). Like US conservatives, the mainstream in France considers “multiculturalism” to be a terrible idea, and instead wants law and institutions to pressure immigrants to assimilate fully to the majority culture. Also, in the US, many conservatives have suggested that the government should have a “colorblind” policy, and so stop gathering demographic information about race and ethnicity; I hadn’t realize that this is actually the law in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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