Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France
by
Beth S. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots broke out in some 250 such towns across the country. Pitting first- and second-generation immigrant teenagers against the police,...