Politics of Alterity

Sarah Mazouz has a PhD in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is a tenured researcher at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research).Rachel Gomme is a a translator, researcher, and artist based in London.

• Acknowledgements Introduction1 Raising the Issue of Racial Discrimination: How Recognition Remained Incomplete 2 Discrimination Politics: The State, Limited, and Ambivalent 3 Put to the Test by the Nation: Administrative Practices and Experiences of Naturalization 4 French, and Yet Other: Naturalization Ceremonies, or the Paradox of the Category ‘Naturalized’ Conclusion Bibliography Index

One of the most innovative scholars on race and racialisation in France, Sarah Mazouz brilliantly revisits the recent history of its politics against discrimination, between official recognition and insidious denial, and analyses through acute ethnographic lenses French naturalisation practices, with their achievements and ambiguities.