The UMass Amherst Modern European Studies Program is pleased to announce a public lecture by Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

Making Black Lives Matter in France

 

In this lecture I will discuss my ongoing ethnographic research on anti-racist mobilization and activism against police violence, and put that in conversation with anti-racist mobilization and the Black Lives Matter movement both in the United States and worldwide. I discuss what it means to consider Black Lives Matter in a society that disavows race and racism and how anti-racist activists in France, many of whom are Black and Maghrebin-origin, assert a place for themselves in a society that continually marginalizes them. 

 

This public lecture is cosponsored by the Institute for Social Science Research and the Department of Sociology at UMass Amherst

Registration required.

 

Biography

Jean Beaman is Associate Professor of Sociology, with affiliations with Political Science, Feminist Studies, Global Studies, and the Center for Black Studies Research, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, she was faculty at Purdue University and held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration,and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her current book project is on suspect citizenship and belonging, anti-racist mobilization, and activism against police violence in France. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Editor of H-Net Black Europe, an Associate Editor of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean_Beaman

 

* Dr. Beaman's lecture will be followed on Friday by an interactive seminar on her experiences researching race and racism, immigration, and policing in France. Separate pre-registration is required for each of Dr. Beaman's two events.

 

For more information contact:

Professor Jacqueline Urla

Director Modern European Studies Program

Dean of the Graduate School

jurla@umass.edu