Intersectionalty and Equality

PLAN DE COURS
INTERSECTIONALITY AND EQUALITY :
TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES
Professor : Marie Mercat-Bruns
Academic year 2016/2017 : Fall semester
SESSIONS AND PROGRAM
09/02/16 Class 1: Introduction
The challenges of intersectionality, multiple discrimination and diversity : a transatlantic perspective
Terminology and construction of concepts : insight on a legal issue
Marie Mercat-Bruns
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Mercat-Bruns, Marie. Discrimination at Work: Comparing European, French, and American Law.
Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. Chapter on intersectionality
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/luminos.11
09/09/16 Class 2: Islamaphobia and Antisemitism: constructing the other?
Hakim Hallouch
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E. Plenel, D. Fernabach (translation), For the Muslims: Islamophobia in France (2016)
09/16/16 Class 3: Sexual Harassment and narratives on rape
Marie Mercat-Bruns
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M. Mercat-Bruns, Enquête interne, atteinte à la vie privée et obligation de sécurité, RDT 2014 p. 554
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W. Eskridge, The many faces of sexual consent, 37 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 47 (1995)
09/23/16 Class 4: Women, poverty and the welfare state in France: an economic perspective
Hélène Perivier
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H. Perivier, « La logique sexuée de la réciprocité dans l’assistance », in Les discriminations entre les
femmes et les hommes, Presses de Sciences Po, collection Savoirs sur le genre, F. Milewski and H.
Périvier eds. 2011
09/30/16 Class 5: Defender of Rights: Multiple discrimination and the Roma
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Sophie Latraverse
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http://www.equineteurope.org/Defender-of-Rights-formerly-HALDE
10/07/16 Class 6: Ethnic profiling and youth of the “banlieue”: a case study
Slim Ben Achour
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https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/paris-court-accepts-appeal-french-policeethnic-profiling-case
10/14/16 Class 7: Diversity and intersectionality in companies: what strategies?
K Berthou
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See P. Shin, M. Gulati, « Showcasing Diversity », North Carolina L. Rev., vol. 89, 2011, p.1031
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3041&context=faculty_scholarship
10/21/16 Class 8: Intersectionality and Access to Justice. Legal empowerment through street law?
Drew Shagrin
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http://www.streetlaw.org/en/home
11/04/16 Class 9: Intersectionality and Migration. Profile of Migrants and the work of NGOs
Lidia Bratos Shokrani
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Ramon Grosfoguel, Laura Oso & Anastasia Christou, Racism, intersectionality and migration studies:
framing some theoretical reflections, Identities, 22:6, 635-652,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2014.950974
11/18/16 Class 10: Women and the veil: oppression or emancipation?
Julie Ringelheim
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Christine Delphy, Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror, Verso
2015
11/25/16 Class 11: Affirmative action and other diversity measures in the world: issues of economic
disadvantage and race
Daniel Sabbagh
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Daniel Sabbagh, L’égalité par le droit : les paradoxes de la discrimination positive aux Etats-Unis,
Paris : Economica, collection : « Etudes politiques », 2003
12/02/16 Class 12: Presentations to the whole class of research in pairs
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Required : Mercat-Bruns, Marie. Discrimination at Work: Comparing European, French, and
American Law. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/luminos.11
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Kimberley Crenshaw, Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of
Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics, U. Chi. Legal F. 139, 149 (1989)
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Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The New
Press 2013
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Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations Edited by
Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson, Adam P. Romero (2009)
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R. Siegel, C. McKinnon, Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, Yale University Press 2004
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M. Minow, Making All the Difference : inclusion, exclusion and American Law, Cornell University
Press 1990
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Hélène Périvier, « Men and women during the economic crisis Employment trends in eight European
countries, in European labour markets in times of crisis. A gender perspective, Revue de l’OFCE n°
133, A. Eydoux, A. Math et H. Périvier eds., 2014
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Eric Fassin, Didier Fassin, Question raciale et question sociale ? La Découverte 2006
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D. Sabbagh, The Rise of Indirect Affirmative Action: Converging Strategies for Promoting “Diversity”
in Selective Institutions of Higher Education in the United States and France, World Politics, Vol. 63,
Issue 03 , July 2011, p 470-508
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