Black Metropolis. Une ville dans la ville. Chicago 1914-1945
The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and Éditions de la MSH are organising an evening to present the book Black Metropolis. Une ville dans la ville. Chicago 1914-1945, the first French translation of a reference work in socio-anthropology, published on 17 October 2024 in the ‘Amérique(s)’ collection.
This ‘Livres en dialogue’ session will bring together translation directors Anne Raulin and Danièle Joly, in dialogue with journalist Rokhaya Diallo.
At the end of the session, you will have the opportunity to put any questions you may have to our guests.
The African-American sociologists St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton invite us to explore the neighbourhoods of Black Metropolis, the largest black metropolis in the USA after Harlem, in the heart of Chicago, and reveal its double face: an overcrowded ghetto, the result of the practice of ‘restrictive covenants’ preventing mixed residential development, but also a city within a city, where numerous institutions, an intense social, cultural and religious life, schools, an influential press and prosperous formal and informal economic activity have developed, earning it the nickname of Bronzeville.
Black Metropolis. Chicago 1914-1945 describes the uniqueness of this urban minority. Racial discrimination, and therefore the struggles of African-Americans throughout the city's history, their capacity for collective and individual action to win their rights and recognition of their full place in this society, are presented in all their vividness. This book, the fruit of a vast collective investigation carried out during the New Deal period, has become a benchmark of the Chicago School and helped to found Black Studies in American universities.
Anne Raulin is Professor Emerita at Paris Nanterre University, a member of Sophiapol, and the first president of AnthropoVilles, the French association for urban anthropology. Trained in anthropology and history in France and later in the United States, she studied at the New School for Social Research in New York, where she explored the relationships between history, memory, and imagination, as well as forms of resilience in the face of urban disasters. Her research has focused both on the minorities that coexist within cosmopolitan metropolitan areas and on minority identities and their ambivalences. She also initiated the collective French translation of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Danièle Joly is a sociologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Warwick, where she directed the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER). She is also an associate researcher at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris. She serves as Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom and Co-Chair of the European Institute for Studies on the Middle East and North Africa. Her extensive research has resulted in numerous publications on Muslims in Europe, issues of integration and discrimination, refugees and asylum policies in Europe, and, more recently, women in Muslim-majority countries in Europe and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Rokhaya Diallo is an award-winning French journalist, author, and filmmaker, widely recognized for her work in support of human rights. She is a columnist for The Washington Post and The Guardian and a researcher with the Gender+Justice Initiative at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Diallo is the author of around ten books and graphic novels and has directed several documentaries. Together with Grace Ly, she co-created Kiffe Ta Race, the first French-language podcast dedicated to racial issues, which has been ranked among Apple’s best podcasts. In 2022, she founded W.O.R.D., the first public-speaking school dedicated to democratizing access to the public sphere.
Livres en dialogue Meeting
20 February, 2025
6:30 pm
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Le Comptoir
54 boulevard Raspail
Paris 6
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