Ethnicity & Equality: France in the Balance

by Azouz Begag

Book Overview

In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. Only months earlier Azouz Begag, France's first minister for equal opportunities and first-ever cabinet minister of North African immigrant origin, wrote an essay laying bare the festering social and ethnic injustices that, as can now be seen in hindsight, led to the riots. This essay, published here for the first time, brilliantly documents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803262620
• ISBN13: 9780803262621
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.5"