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Podcast: The Lede
Episode: The Republic Makes No Distinction Among Its Children — with Charazade Douah, Jean Beaman and Erin Clare Brown
Description: Then-French Prime Minister Manuel Valls once remarked that “the Republic makes no distinction among its children.”
Valls was not just speaking in platitudes: The French Republic officially does not recognize racial or religious divides, to the point that the government refuses to collect data regarding race or religion.
“They don't even recognize that as a category or as a box you can check on a form,” says sociologist Jean Beaman, an associate professor at University of California, Santa Barbara and the author of the book “Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in F...