While the controversy over Islamo-leftism has awakened the war between the identity left and the universalist left, two books are fueling the debate:
Race and social sciences
(Agone), by Gérard Noiriel and Stéphane Beaud, and
Soi-même comme un roi .
Essay on identity drifts
(Seuil) by Elisabeth Roudinesco.
Read also: How Islamo-leftism plagues universities
The historian Gérard Noiriel and the sociologist Stéphane Beaud are perfectly left-wing academics.
At the beginning of their book, they like to recall their curriculum as “committed researchers”.
In
Race and Social Sciences
, they seek to demonstrate that, far from having been concealed in France as the decolonials proclaim it, the racial question was theorized in the 19th century by conservative forces.
According to the authors, "
from the start the race struggle was presented as an alternative to the class struggle
": they regret the return of this theme by the left in the public debate and believe that it obscures the real question, which is economic and social.
This article is for subscribers only.
You have 79% left to discover.
Subscribe: 1 € the first month
Can be canceled at any time
I ENJOY IT
Already subscribed?
Log in