Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface: Black Girl in Paris ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. 1. North African Origins in and of the French Republic 1
7. 2. Growing up French? Education, Upward Mobility, and Connections across Generations 29
8. 3. Marginalization and Middle-Class Blues: Race, Islam, the Workplace, and the Public Sphere 43
9. 4. French Is, French Ain’t: Boundaries of French and Maghrébin Identities 66
10. 5. Boundaries of Difference: Cultural Citizenship and Transnational Blackness 84
11. Conclusion: Sacrificed Children of the Republic? 93
12. Methodological Appendix: Another Outsider: Doing Race from/in 105
13. Notes 113
14. References 127
15. Index 147