Refreshing or Abolishing Colorblindness in France?

Abstract

A commentary on the Black Lives Matter movement’s influence on France’s own debate over the idea of colorblindness within its universalist national project and the way in which the concept obscures the reality of racial discrimination, police violence, and the marginalization of ethnic communities in France.

Why Haitian Refugee Patients Need Trauma-Informed Care

“…The traumatic effects of the Cercle's actions also merge with and are worsened by present-day anti-Haitianism (Tavernier, 2008) and anti-Black racism, communicated through hyper-universalism (Rebourcet, 2020) and a stigmatization (Joseph, 2016) of Blackness, Afro-Haitian religiosity, and Haitian personhood (Endong & Obi, 2020).…”