Academic literature on the topic 'Conseil représentatif des associations noires (France)'

AbstractSince the turn of the millennium, French society has become the theatre of a noticeable Black agency. Few previous events have ignited the media's interest in a Black French agenda more than the Collectif Égalité-led “March for the dignity of Black peoples” and the formation of the Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires (CRAN). Through these newly-founded organizations, French activists of African descent have been challenging the hegemonic ideology of color-blindness, and heralding the claims, problems, and expectations of postcolonial African-descended people.Informed by this ideology of so-called color-blindness, the academic literature in France has been slow to account for this new form of political expression. Moreover, as this article will argue, postcolonial African-descended people have not been recognized as political agents in the French literature. Few studies have attempted to correct this myopic view by analyzing the current political dynamic of postcolonial African-descended people. Due to the state-centered or institutionalist approach, these studies are more concerned with highlighting external and structural factors, such as racial discrimination, at the expense of endogenous determinants. They focus on what postcolonial African-descended people are denied in the French society instead of investigating the qualities these citizens actually possess that enable them to organize collectively. This article is intended to contribute to this new literature. It will pinpoint the different transformations that postcolonial African-descended people have undergone from the 1960s through the 1990s, examine the resources and skills under these actors' control, and gauge the contribution of these resources and skills to the emergence of a Black collective voice.

Cette thèse s'appuie sur une enquête ethnographique conduite entre 2014 et 2017 auprès des militants de quatre associations antiracistes françaises : le Conseil représentatif des associations noires de France, la Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme, le Parti des Indigènes de la République et SOS Racisme. En mobilisant l'anthropologie de l'espace, la sociologie des mouvements sociaux et la sociologie des publics, la thèse se veut explorer une dimension originale de l'antiracisme militant français : la distance qui sépare les militant antiracistes des personnes qu'ils jugent racistes. Autrement dit, plutôt que d'envisager l'antiracisme militant sous l'unique angle de la lutte contre les racistes, cette thèse parcourt une lutte sans les racistes. Ce travail s'interroge donc sur cette part de l'antiracisme militant qui revient à éviter tout contact avec les racistes. À travers un examen des locaux associatifs et des terrains militants, des relations entretenues avec des adversaires racistes et des publics non-racistes, cette recherche tâche de décrire et de comprendre l'absence d'une coprésence et d'un dialogue dans les rapports de l'antiracisme militant aux personnes qu'il juge racistes. Elle se veut, aussi, interroger un paradoxe apparent : comment les antiracistes comptent-ils contribuer à la fin du racisme alors qu'ils se tiennent et se maintiennent à distance des racistes ? Pour répondre à cette question, cette thèse dévoile la manière dont cette distance peut être envisagée par les antiracistes comme un vecteur pour s'imposer face aux racistes. En tentant de convaincre un public tiers non-raciste de se joindre à la lutte antiraciste contre le racisme, l'antiracisme militant espère pouvoir construire une majorité et se constituer en puissance contraignante censée réduire les racistes au silence
This thesis draws on an ethnographic investigation led between 2014 and 2017 among activists from four French antiracist organizations: the Conseil représentatif des associations noires de France, the Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme, the Parti des Indigènes de la République and SOS Racisme. Utilizing anthropology of space, sociology of social movements and sociology of audiences, the thesis aims at exploring a unique aspect of French activism: the distance between antiracist activists and the people they deem racist. In other words, rather than looking at activist antiracism through the sole lens of fighting against racists, this thesis explores a fight without racists. This body of work thus questions the part of activist antiracism which amounts to avoiding any contact with racists. Through a study of organizations' premises and activist fields, of relationships maintained with racist opponents and non-racist audiences, this research endeavors to describe and comprehend the lack of both copresence and dialogue within the relations between activist antiracism and the people it deems racist. It also strives to question an obvious paradox: how do antiracists plan on contributing to ending racism if they keep away from racists ? In order to answer this question, this thesis unveils the way this distance can be seen by antiracists as a way to prevail against racists. By trying to convince a third-party non-racist audience to join in the antiracist fight, activist antiracism hopes to build a majority and become a compelling force which could silence racists