Is France racist?

Contemporary European History

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 119-127

  Mayer, Nonna ^a  

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EID: 62449126473     PISSN: 09607773     EISSN: 14692171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0960777300003660     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. 'Would you say that the National Front is "racist"?' 'Yes' 87 per cent, 'no' 8 per cent, no answer 5 per cent. Opinion poll by SOFRES for Le Monde, Jan. 1994, nationwide sample of 1,000 French people of voting age
2. Face an racisme, 2 vols (Paris: La Découverte, 1991)
3. Les Fins de l'antiracisme (Paris: Michalon, 1995)
4. See also Colette Guillaumin, L'Idéologie raciste, Genèse et iangage actuel (The Hague: Mouton, 1972)
5. Claude Lévi-Strauss, De près et de loin (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1988), 208
6. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Race et histoire (Paris: Gonthier, 1961), 19-20
7. and the English translation edited by Daniel Boy and Nonna Mayer, The French Voter Decides (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1993)
8. Nonna Mayer, 'Ethnocentrisme, racisme et intolérance', in L'Élecieur français, 17-43
9. Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and Nevitt R. Sanford, The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper and Row, 1950)
10. Gordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1954)
11. See Gertrude J. Selznick and Stephen Steinberg, The Tenacity of Prejudice. Antisemitism in Contemporary America (New York: Harper and Row, 1969)
12. On Italy in particular see Michel Wieviorka, ed., Racisme et xenophobie en Europe. Une comparison Internationale (Paris: La Découverte, 1994)
13. For an overview of Eurobarometers from 1988 to 1994 see the paper by Anne Melich, 'Comparative European Trend Survey Data on Racism and Xenophobia', given at the European Consortium for Political Research workshop on 'Racist Parties in Europe: A New Political Family', Bordeaux, 27 April-2 May 1995
14. Telephone survey of a sample of 936 French people aged 18 and over by IFOP for Le Monde, La Marche du siècle and RTL, 20-21 Sept. 1994: Le Monde, 13 Oct. 1994
15. See especially Donald R. Kinder and David O. Sears, 'Prejudice and Politics: Symbolic Racism versus Racial Threats to the Good Life', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol.40 (1981), 414-31
16. David O. Sears, 'Symbolic Racism', in Phyllis A. Katz and Dalmas A. Taylor, eds., Eliminating Racism: Profile in Controversy (New York: Plenum, 1988), 53-84
17. Thomas F. Pettigrew, 'The Nature of Modern Racism in the United States', Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, Vol. 2, no. 3 (1989), 291-303
18. For a dissenting view emphasising the persistence of 'biological' racism see Gérard Lemaine and Jeanne Ben Brika, 'Le rejet de l'autre: pureté, descendance, valeurs', in Martine Fourier and Geneviève Vermès, eds, Ethnicisation des rapports sociaux (Saint-Cloud/Paris: ENS Editions Fontenay Saint-Cloud/Editions de l'Harmattan, Paris, 1994), 196-235
19. See the important book by Pierre-André Taguieff, La Force du préjugé. Essai sur le racisme et ses doubles (Paris: La Découverte, 1987)
20. See also Nonna Mayer and Pascal Perrineau, 'Why Do They Vote for Le Pen?', European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 22 (1992), 123-41
21. On the structure and organs of the party and the development of a 'frontist' system of thought see Guy Birenbaum, Le Front National en politique (Paris: Balland, 1992)