Seminar | Black (American) Girl in the Banlieue: Doing Race and Ethnography as an American in France

Portrait of Dr. Jean Beaman
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Online Event - Login credentials via email for registered participants
The UMass Amherst Modern European Studies Program is pleased to announce a researcg seminar with Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
 
Black (American) Girl in the Banlieue: Doing Race and Ethnography as an American in France
Friday April 2, 2-3:15 pm. EST. Via Zoom.
 
Based on ethnographic research on race, racism, and migration in the Paris metropolitan region, I discuss how my identity as a Black American ethnographer was implicated in this urban ethnography. I will discuss the intersections of researcher identity with that of the “researched” and how I was simultaneously framed as an insider and outsider due to different facets of my own identity. I further argue that these insights were data in and of itself as they revealed how race and racism operate in a society that has long disavowed their existence. Readings to be distributed in advance. 
 
This research seminar is cosponsored by the Institute for Social Science Research and the Anthropology Colloquium 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 Friday seminar follows her public lecture on Thursday April 1, on the findings of her research on 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