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Contre l’assignation identitaire qui gagne

Contre l’assignation identitaire qui gagne Publié le 10 mars 2021 Les questions identitaires sont au centre du débat politique depuis de nombreuses années déjà. Elles avaient jusque dans les années 2000 une dimension émancipatrice par rapport à l’appartenance à des minorités mal reconnues. Il s’agissait de trouver sa place dans une société française ouverte sur l’extérieur. Les questions identitaires avaient également une dimension politique très forte face à la montée de l’extrême droite qui en faisait un sujet politique contre l’immigration. Puis les revendications identitaires se sont développées également sur d’autres terrain : les questions de genre et la montée en puissance des revendications liées aux libertés sexuelles, à la procréation médicalement assistée ; les questions religieuses et notamment le port du voile dans l’espace public. Elles ont également investi le champ de la mémoire avec les débats sur le colonialisme, le « racialisme », l’esclavage, la repentance et pl

Is the brown bag test real or is it an urban legend?

Question Is the brown bag test real or is it an urban legend? --Jeremy Village, Chicago, Illinois Answer Brown Paper Bag Test I am sad to report that the brown paper bag test was real. It was an example of colorism-discrimination based on skin color. In his 1996 book The Future of the Race, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the prominent Harvard historian, described his introduction to this practice as an undergraduate student at Yale in the late 1960s. According to Gates, "Some of the brothers who came from New Orleans held a bag party. As a classmate explained it to me, a bag party was a New Orleans custom wherein a brown paper bag was stuck on the door. Anyone darker than the bag was denied entrance. That was one cultural legacy that would be put to rest in a hurry-we all made sure of that. But in a manner of speaking, it was replaced by an opposite test whereby those who were deemed "not black enough' ideologically were to be shunned. I was not sure this was an improvement.

Is it true only half of the population of France is from ethnic French origin?

Not at this point. According to the INSEE (National Institute for Statistics) , there are 19 million people who have immigration background on three generations in metropolitan France. Out of 65 million, this would amount to 69% being entirely of native stock. If you count oversea territories, you still have 66% people of French metropolitan origin. However, there are no official and accurate data like you have in English speaking countries (i.e : « white British » in the UK). Being French was always legally a question of citizenship instead of ethicity, unlike for instance in Germany. Moreover, the only ethnic statistics that have existed were the ones for Jews during the Vichy regime, which has created a taboo. It is possible to have estimates of French people’s ethnic background, but they make France a very complex mosaic. Within the native population proper, there are already six linguistic and regional minorities (Breton, Alsatian, Flemish, Basque, Catalan and Corsican). Som

Edna Liliana Valencia Murillo periodista colombiana

Edna Liliana Valencia Murillo Journalist, France24 Colombia Edna Liliana Valencia is a proudly Afro-Colombian journalist. Reporter and news anchor for the international network France 24 that broadcasts in 180 countries around the world and in four languages. It is the sister channel of the renowned Radio France International station. There she directs and presents the program "Africa 7 days", the only news program in Spanish 100% dedicated to the African continent. She was the first Afro journalist to work at Noticias RCN, one of the television channels with the most audience in Colombia. There for four years she stood out for her reports on the diverse populations of the country and received four awards for her journalistic work. She was also awarded as the Afro-Colombian journalist of the year in 2015, recognition granted by the newspaper El Espectador and the Color de Colombia foundation. She was the first presenter from Latin America to present general news with h

The declinig of the Whites in the USA

US’s white population declines for first time ever, 2020 census finds White population falls below 60%, underscoring what’s at stake as lawmakers begin drawing political maps Fri 13 Aug 2021 01.57 BST First published on Thu 12 Aug 2021 21.44 BST People walk in Santa Monica, California. The Census Bureau results showed that US metro areas accounted for almost all the country’s population growth. Photograph: Caroline Brehman/EPA America’s white population declined for the first time while US metro areas were responsible for almost all of the country’s population growth, according to groundbreaking new data released on Thursday by the US Census Bureau. Overall, the white-alone population fell by 8.6% since 2010, the bureau said on Thursday. Non-Hispanic whites now account for around 58% of America’s population, a drop from 2010 when they made up 63.7% of the population. It was the first time that the non-Hispanic white population has fallen below 60% since the census began. Meanw

So What Exactly Is 'Blood Quantum'?

If you're Native American, there's a good chance that you've thought a lot about blood quantum — a highly controversial measurement of the amount of "Indian blood" you have. It can affect your identity, your relationships and whether or not you — or your children — may become a citizen of your tribe. Blood quantum was initially a system that the federal government placed onto tribes in an effort to limit their citizenship. Many Native nations, including the Navajo Nation and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, still use it as part of their citizenship requirements. The Difficult Math Of Being Native American Code Switch Love And Blood Quantum: Buy In Or Die Out? And how tribes use blood quantum varies from tribe to tribe. The Navajo Nation requires a minimum of 25 percent "Navajo blood," and Turtle Mountain requires a minimum of 25 percent of any Indian blood, as long as its in combination with some Turtle Mountain. Blood quantum minimums re